Did dell make the first computer?

Answer 1

no!

• the first electronic digital computer was made by Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student Clifford Berry at Ames Iowa, in 1942.
• the first programmable electronic digital computer was made by Tommy Flowers and the british post office technicians of Dolis Hill Research Station, in 1944.
• the first stored program computer was made at the Victoria University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, in 1948.
• the first transistorized computers were made in the late 1950s, by various companies and universities.
• the first computers built with integrated circuits were made in the early 1960s, by various companies and universities.
• the first computer microprocessor integrated circuit was made by Intel, in 1971. This resulted in an avalanche of microprocessor based inexpensive computers throughout the 1970s.
• the first IBM PC was made by IBM, in 1981. Many PC clones appeared in the next few years.
• the first Dell computer (a clone of the IBM PC), was made in 1985.

Electronic digital computer had been built for 43 years before the first Dell computer. Dell can't even take credit as the first IBM PC clone.

Prior to digital computers there were analog computers of many different types. There are so many I could not begin to give any reasonable list of firsts. The period of the 1920s through 1930s saw the largest expansion in new types of analog computers.

The first known mechanical analog computer was built circa 100BC, by the Greeks.