Technically, China. THe first computer is an abacus.
I question the Swedish answer, since mnost inovation in the modern computer was made in America so
I checked Wikipedia and most of the modern computers are invented in good ole USA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
2007-01-30 21:20:30
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answered by Anonymous
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Depends how you define "computer"....
Usually, that implies the ability to operate on a series of preset instructions, so that rules out the abacus., or counting with stones, etc.
Arguably, the first machine that you could pre-set to solve a specific problem was Babbage's Differential Engine (He was British)
Or maybe you could include Bouchon and Falcon, from France, who developed the punch-card for running weaving looms, in the early 1700's
The first electromechanical problem solver was "the Bletchley Bomb",or "Turing-Welchman bombe" to solve wartime codes. (This is the same Alan Turing who gave us the "Turing test".)
Probably the first "real" programmable electronic computer, as we understand the term today, would be ENIAC, developed for the US military in the mid-1940's. It was originally intended to work on artillery firing solutions, but it got kind of "borrowed" to help develop the hydrogen bomb, instead
There's sometting really depressing about finding the computer you learned your trade on, in a museum... in my case, an Elliott 903.
2007-01-31 08:40:09
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answered by IanP 6
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Atlantis. Computers have been around in mechanical form since ancient Egyptian times.
2007-01-31 05:26:50
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answered by fall.back2 1
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