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Here are some names of different candidates for "first computer" (depending on how you define computer):

  1. Antikythera mechanism - ~100 BC
  2. Analytical engine - 1840s, never built
  3. Bush Differential Analyzer - 1929
  4. ABC - 1942
  5. Harvard Mark I - 1942
  6. Zuse Z3 - 1943, destroyed in WW2 bombing raid
  7. ENIAC - 1945, very difficult to program as it had to be partially rewired for each problem
  8. EDSAC
  9. LEO I - first mass produced computer in Britian
  10. EDVAC
  11. UNIVAC I - 1951, first mass produced computer in US
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ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was the first large-scale, electronic, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems, although earlier computers had been built with some of these properties

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It was "Von-Neumann"computer.

It weights 30 tons.

Its volume was like a standard classroom.

It costs to cooling much than elecricity for its vaccum tubes, wich radiate many kiloJoules of energy.

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The first computer was called the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer).

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The Abacus can be said to be the first computer, almost 5000 years ago. There have been many other machines over the centuries that also lay claim to being the first computer.

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