It depends what you mean by the first computer; arguably the first was the "difference engine" designed by Charles Babbage. This was a mechanical computer, a modern version, built to Babbage's design is 3.4 metres long by 2.1 metres high.
as large as a fridge
1946
It occupied a large room in size
Their active components were vacuum tubes (which were large) which generated lots of heat (which needed a large cooling system to remove that heat from the computer).
No the first computer was meant for calculations and was extremely difficult to use, expensive, and large. It also did not have the GUI that you know of today.
It was huge! Around the size of an entire room.
Howard Hathaway Aiken invented the first large scale computing system which would eventually be named the Harvard Mark I Computer in 1944. The inventor of the first computer was actually Konrad Zuse who invented the first Z1 computer.
Charles Babbage
The National Computer Center of Nepal had an IBM 1401 at least several years before 1978. It was use for many purposes including census and Royal Nepal Airlines. It was certainly the first large computer used there.
abacus
World War 2. Large Data Bases.
ENIAC, stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator And calculator which was the first large-scale computer.- Neeraj SharmaENIAC computer was 300 times faster than the human speed.- Nihar shahIT IS THE FIRST GENERATION COMPUTER SECOND COMPUTER-TUSHAR KALRA