Assertion: colossus | /r/HasProperty | first of electronic digital machines
Facets:
value: with programmability
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Although the Colossus was the first of the electronic digital machines with programmability, albeit limited by modern standards, it was not a general-purpose machine, being designed for a range of cryptanalytic tasks, most involving counting the results of evaluating Boolean algorithms.
text: Colossus was the first of the electronic digital machines that could have a program.
text: Colossus was the first of the electronic digital machines with programmability, albeit limited in modern terms.
text: Whilst Colossus featured (limited) programmability and was the first of the electronic digital machines to do so, it was not a true general purpose computer, not being Turing-complete.