103 North John Wayne Drive

Historical marker location:

103 North John Wayne Drive, Winterset, Iowa

( Marker is on John Wayne Drive near Court Avenue, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1999

c.1876.

The first electronic digital computer was built at Iowa State University in the 1930s. The machine, called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, was invented by John Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry.