who invented the computer?

Answer 1

Actually the first computer was an abacus if you take the word conpute at its most literal meaning. The abacus, a simple counting aid, may have been invented in Babylonia (now Iraq) in the fourth century B.C.

1. Who invented the first modern computer?
It all depends on your definition of computer. Charles Babbage in the 1830s devised a plan for the first stored-program mechanical computer, using data modeled after the punched card templates used in industrial (Jacquard) looms. The first electronic digital computer was the ABC built by John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry in 1940 at Iowa State University. Several of its ideas were incorporated into the ENIAC which ran from 1945-1955 and is considered the first functionally useful electronic digital computer. The patent for ENIAC was awarded to Atanasoff by court order in 1974. The first commercially available electronic computer in the USA was the UNIVAC I, bought by and delivered to the US Census Bureau in 1951.

2. Who made the first personal computers?
One of the earliest personal computers was the Intellec 4 by Intel, using their first commercially produced microprocessor - the four-bit 4004. The Altair built by MITS was the first commercially successful personal computer and the computer Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote Microsoft's (then known as Micro-Soft) first software product for - "BASIC for the Altair."

3. What was the first laptop?
The TRS-80 Model 100 comes as close to it as you will ever get in 1983. Running on 4 AA batteries, it was popular with newspaper reporters and made filing stories from the field much easier, provided they had access to a telephone line.

4. What was the first computer bug and when did computer viruses first appear?
Grace Hopper found a moth had landed in between the solenoid contacts in the Mark II Calculator, a massive analog computer at Harvard University, designed by Howard Aiken. She removed the squashed moth and annotated her log book with an entry (along with the moth fastened to the page) that referred to the first "computer bug." Computer viruses became a problem in the 1980s as DOS based computers began to proliferate. The file structure utilized by these machines made it relatively easy in 1986 for the maker(s) of the "Brain" virus to play havoc with the boot sectors on floppy disks. In 1988, an anti-virus program was devised to remove Brain from infected floppies.

5. Who invented the mouse?
Douglas Engelbart, then at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), demonstrated a mouse-keyboard component at a computer conference in 1968 in San Francisco.

OMG, just occurred to me, I'm older than DIRT - I built a MITS Altair 8000 in the 1970's when it first came out!

Answer 2

Many say the first computer is the "difference engine." The first of these devices was conceived in 1782 by J. H. smith. It was never built. Difference engines were forgotten and then rediscovered in 1822 by Englishman Charles Babbage..who is known as "the father of the Computer". This machine used the decimal numbers system and was powered by cranking a handle. The British government first financed the project but then later cut off support. Babbage went on to design his much more general analytical engine but later returned and produced an improved design (his "Difference Engine No. 2") between 1834 and 1869. Others point out that this is the first ELECTRONIC computer. The earliest computer known is the Antikythera Machine, a mechanical device that computed the positions of the astrological signs on any given date, past or future. It was discovered in an ancient shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea and dates to approximately 250 BC. The designer/builder is not known, but because of its similarity to other mechanical devices known to have been designed by Archimedes, it is probably his work. Still others will say the abacus is the first computer. They were invented by the Chinese between 2600 BC and 300 BC is considered as the first computer ever. Abacus was used by the merchants and Clerks in China.

Answer 3

Assuming that you are talking about a computer with characteristics of our modern computers then this would be the closest answer:

Konrad Zuse, 1936 - 1941
One of the most difficult aspects of doing a large calculation with either a slide rule or a mechanical adding machine is keeping track of all intermediate results and using them, in their proper place, in later steps of the calculation. Konrad Zuse wanted to overcome that difficulty. He realized that an automatic-calculator device would require three basic elements: a control, a memory, and a calculator for the arithmetic.

In 1936, Zuse made a mechanical calculator called the Z1, the first binary computer. Zuse used it to explore several groundbreaking technologies in calculator development: floating-point arithmetic, high-capacity memory and modules or relays operating on the yes/no principle. Zuse's ideas, not fully implemented in the Z1, succeeded more with each Z prototype.

In 1939, Zuse completed the Z2, the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.

Konrad Zuse completed the Z3 in 1941, with recycled materials donated by fellow university staff and students. This was the world's first electronic, fully programmable digital computer based on a binary floating-point number and switching system. Zuse used old movie film to store his programs and data for the Z3, instead of using paper tape or punched cards. Paper was in short supply in Germany during the war.

In 1941, the Z3 contained almost all of the features of a modern computer as defined by John von Neumann and his colleagues in 1946. The only exception was the ability to store the program in the memory together with the data.

Answer 4

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That depends on what you mean by "computer". The basis of any computing machine is the ability to do input, processing and output. The core of what makes it a computer is to handle "whatif" questions and to respond differently based on the answer to those questions. For example, to say, "If the dollar amount is less than X then do this, but if it's greater than X then do that.

By that definition, the first true computer would probably be Charles Babbage's "Difference Engine" built in the late 1800s. An improved version, which he called the "Analytical Engine" actually accepted punch card programs, the first of which was written by Lord Byron's daughter, Ada Lovelace, making her the world's first computer programmer.

The first truly modern electronic computer was, arguably, the ENIAC developed for the US Army by the University of Pennsylvania. I say "arguably" because it depends on which features you want to include in the definition of "modern electronic computer." For example, the ENIAC had no stored memory and had to be rewired for each program.

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Answer 5

European mathematics and engineering, and Wilhelm Schickard's 1623 device was the first of a number of mechanical calculators constructed by European engineers.
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Answer 6

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Answer 7

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