[Nathan Zachary]

And since what you are insisting can only be called a computer didn’t exist at the time this guy lived, he couldn’t have been the founder of the science that eventually created it, could he.

Not an inventor of resistors, transistors, silicon micro chips, hard drives, or even mechanical memory storage devices, none of it.

[TomOnTheRun]

And since what you are insisting can only be called a computer didn’t exist at the time this guy lived, he couldn’t have been the founder of the science that eventually created it, could he.

The Pilot ACE computer was built as a result of that 1946 paper he wrote which was the first detailed design of a stored-program computer. He didn't get to participate in actually building it because they had him working on other projects that they thought might be more important. He also helped write the software for the Manchester Mark I which was one of the first stored program computers. He was there for as much of the ground floor of the new computational model as his other work permitted.