The Harvard Mark 1 is usually credited as being the first computer, but these were also early computers Comparison with other early computers {| |+ Defining characteristics of five first operative digital computers |- ! Computer ! Shown working ! Binary ! Electronic ! Programmable ! Turing complete | Zuse Z3 May 1941 Yes No By punched film stock Yes (1998) Atanasoff-Berry Computer Summer 1941 Yes Yes No No Colossus December 1943 / January 1944 Yes Yes Partially, by rewiring No Harvard Mark I - IBM ASCC 1944 No No By punched paper tape Yes (1998) ENIAC 1944 No Yes Partially, by rewiring Yes 1948 No Yes By Function Table ROM Yes
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The first computer was called the Difference Engine invented by Charles Babbage in 1822. It was the first mechanical computer that was able to compute sets of number and create a hard copy of the results.
The first modern computers were developed by the United States military during World War II. Their purpose was to calculate the paths of artillery shells and bombs. By present day standards, these machines were primitive. They used bulky vacuum tubes that were the predecessors of today's electronic circuitry. As a result, the machines were massive, occupying large rooms. Additionally, the myriad of settings were controlled by on-off switches, which had to be reset by hand for each operation. This was time-consuming and difficult for the programmers.
The first electronic computer was called "ENIAC".
The British Collossus machine was decoding the enigma transcripts during WW2 using optical readers and software designed by Alan Turing but details of it's pioneering speed and complexity was not made known until the 1970's when it was declassified.There were several names used in the early days, some are:
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ENIAC- Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer.
The first true computer was the ENIAC.
or perhaps Charles Babbage's difference engine (which was earlier).
No the first programmable was called the Z1.
Charles Babbage invented the first computer - it was called a 'difference engine'
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Charles Babbage was the first to design a fully programmable mechanical computer in 1837, called his analytical engine.
Microsoft BASIC, it was for the MITS Altair 8800 kit.
That was a computer called ENIAC,but first machine was a calculator.
The first digital computer was called ENIAC
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The first chess computer that could play chess was called Deep Blue.
The first computer was German and was called the Zuse Z3. It was first operational in May of 1941.
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in 1837 Charles Babbage a british professor first made a computer'
The first Apple computer, called Apple 1, was made in 1976.
The first Computer was build in US and was called ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) In the Year 1946.
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