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JVA Biography

John Vincent Atanasoff (JVA) was born on 4 October a few miles west of Hamilton, New York. His father was a Bulgarian immigrant named Ivan Atanasov.

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Ivan’s name was changed to John Atanasoff by immigration officials at Ellis Island, when he arrived with an uncle in

JVA’s mother was Iva Lucena Purdy, an English teacher from upstate New York. She and John married in , following John’s graduation from Colgate College with a degree in philosophy.

He got a job as an industrial engineer in New Jersey and they started their family.  John took electrical engineering correspondence courses at night and on weekends to further his education.  After JVA’s birth in , his father moved the family to Florida, accepting an electrical engineering position in a newly established town called Brewster, now an empty ghost town, but back then, the home of the phosphate mines of chemical conglomerate American Cyanamid.

 In Brewster, JVA completed gr