2007-03-03 09:25:15 · 6 answers · asked by M B 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Who invented the first 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.
2007-03-03 09:28:54 · answer #1 · answered by Mystee_Rain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all boils down to how you define a computer. If you agree that anything that "computes" is a computer then the Abasus was the first computer, all it had was beads threaded in multiple wires fitted in a frame, it was used to add/subtract
2007-03-03 09:32:05 · answer #2 · answered by Muhammed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the computer was made in the mid 40's its size was equvilent to approx 1 football feild and todays modern caculator could do a faster caculation then the computer back then
2007-03-03 09:29:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
IBM created the first electronic computer. They were hired by the military to create a device to "compute" trajectories for ballistics.
2007-03-03 09:29:25 · answer #4 · answered by cireengineering 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Pillsbury dough boy.
2007-03-03 09:28:26 · answer #5 · answered by wigginsray 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I made several out of rasberry jam.
2007-03-03 09:34:06 · answer #6 · answered by bigpileofrottencowshit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋