who was the first inventer of the computer?

Answer 1

Charles Babbage
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Answer 2

The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) was the first electronic digital computing device.[1] Conceived in 1937, the machine was capable of solving up to 29 simultaneous linear equations and was successfully tested, though its input/output mechanism was still unreliable in 1942 when its inventors left Iowa State College for World War II assignments. The ABC pioneered important elements of modern computing, including binary arithmetic and electronic switching elements,[2] but its special-purpose nature and lack of a changeable, stored program distinguish it from modern computers.

ABC inventor John Vincent Atanasoff's computer work was not widely known until rediscovered in the 1960s, amidst conflicting claims about the first instance of an electronic computer. The ENIAC computer is usually considered to be the first computer in the modern sense, but in 1973 a U.S. District Court invalidated the ENIAC patent and concluded that the ABC was the first "computer"


Mind you, I concur with the abacus answer too!

Answer 3

Abacus

Answer 4

Technically Charles Babbage even though it was a mechanical one.

Answer 5

charles babbage