2006-09-12 01:01:53 · 12 answers · asked by bow wow 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
The computer was not evented.
2006-09-12 01:03:34 · answer #1 · answered by Fall Down Laughing 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The abacus is, indeed, a computing device, though not an electronic programable computing device. I believe that a quick search for the term ENIAC will give you a good idea about the beginings of electronic programable computers. Many inventors have played a part in organizing advances on computers and computer theory before then, but ENIAC was somewhat of a milestone in the history of electronic programable computers. Take note of the processor speed, memory and storage used as well as the physical size. Many who worked with this would feel like Buck Rogers if they had a modern laptop! Check out the URL below.
2006-09-12 11:04:33 · answer #2 · answered by griz803 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Chinese invented the first mechanical computer (abacus).
In 1623 Schickard built the first mechanical calculator and is thought of as the father of computers. Pascal made the mass-produced version (and is better known). In the 40's the military used mechanical computers to break codes. But the 60's was when electronic computers took off. They were made by committee after that with IBM leading the charge.
2006-09-12 08:11:32 · answer #3 · answered by Drewpie 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I suppose you mean "who invented the electronic computer". There are at least six different answers.
John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry constructed an electronic machine "ABC" which contained a binary adding circuit, at Iowa State College in 1939. This was important - see below.
Max Newman and Tommy Flowers invented the Colossus calculating machine in 1943, to help break German codes at Bletchley park in England. It contained 1500 electronic valves. It is often supposed that Alan Turing helped this invention, but there are contradictory accounts.
J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly built the ENIAC calculator at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Pennsylvania in 1944-45 to work out artillery firing tables. It had 18,000 electronic valves. When they tried to use its invention to apply for a patent on electronic computing, the judge threw it out, citing John V. Atanasoff's invention as "prior art".
John von Neumann of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study, together with A.W. Burks and H.H. Goldstein, wrote an incredibly important paper "Preliminary discussion of the logical design of an electronic computing instrument" in 1946. It laid down the design of proper computers, building on the ideas in Colossus and ENIAC, and was pretty strictly followed for a long time.
Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn of Manchester University in the UK built the first machine which worked according to the von Neumann design. They called it "Baby". It ran its first program on June 21, 1948, but it had no proper input/output equipment.
Maurice Wilkes built the EDSAC computer at Cambridge, England, to the von Neumann design. It had proper input/output equipment, and first ran in May 1949. For eighteen months it was the only fully working computer in the world.
2006-09-12 16:30:00 · answer #4 · answered by bh8153 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I invented a computer which runs on jam and uses a bar of soap as in input device.
It's really cool.
Rawlyn.
p.s. The abacus is not a calculator. It is a counting board. You still have to work it all manually. Saying the abacus is a computer is no different from calling a heap of pebbles a computer - the same principal applies.
2006-09-12 08:16:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Compton L Uteria.
The name computer came from his nickname Computeria.
He was paid 111 dollars for the rights and gladly accepted as he had a Heroin addiction and was being evicted.
He has since overcome his addiction and went on to become a successful Restaurateur and Bar Owner.
He lives with his wife and 7 children in West Covina.
2006-09-12 08:10:11 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Charles Babbage also known as father of computers invented first computing device... How ever Abacus which is used for counting was known to human as early as 3000BC
2006-09-12 08:07:40 · answer #7 · answered by Ashish Samadhia 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A person who was overly obsessed with computers. Wait, that doesn't work out...How can a computer lover love computers if computer did not exist when the computer was not invented yet?
2006-09-12 08:10:01 · answer #8 · answered by ♤ 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm not sure -- but since Al Gore took credit for inventing the Internet, I think it was a democrat.
(Actually IBM probably was as close as any to being the "inventor".)
2006-09-12 08:04:02 · answer #9 · answered by pilgrimchd 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Al Gore evented it...can I get a best answer?!
2006-09-12 08:05:03 · answer #10 · answered by lust_for_life1 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋