[inforoots] first use of bits to store programmes?

[Niels Ole Finnemann]

Help: I suppose there are people on this list who can help me with the
following question:
It's known that Konrad Zuse used binary notation for numbers in his
calculating machines, that von Neumann developed the idea of a stored
program, and that "Claude Shannon identified the bit as the
fundamental unit of data and, coincidentally, the basic unit of
computation". (comp hist timeline) but now I want to know who was the
first to use the binary alphabet for representation (and execution) of
programmes - and not simply data?

Best regards


Professor, dr. phil.
Niels Ole Finnemann
Dept. for. for Information- & Media Studies
Helsingsforsgade 14,
8200 Aarhus N

Denmark

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