What was the first company to make computers?

Answer 1

Many people had created the first computer. This is because there are so many parts, that many different people created many different parts to it. One of the inventors name to create most of the parts was Charles Babbage.

The first computers were large rooms filled with tubes, Transformers and other parts.

A bit of trivia: Computer "bugs" were so named because someone left the door open and a miller got stuck in a component, causing the computer to malfunction. Urban myth? Possibly, but the incident was cited in an Introduction to Computers college textbook.

Answer 2

Because many devices in the history of computers are regarded as 'the first computer', there are several individuals who are credited with manufacturing the first one. The Analytical Engine, which is said have born most features of a modern computer, was manufactured in 1837 by Charles Babbage.

Answer 3

No company, all the early electronic digital computers were either university or military projects.

• The ABC in 1942 was a university project, done entirelyby one professor and a graduate student.
• The Harvard Mark I (electromechanical not electronic) in 1942 was a joint university and IBM project, funded by the military.
• The British Colossus in 1943 was a military project.
• Zuse Z-3 (electromechanical not electronic) in 1944 was the project of one man: Konrad Zuse, who after the war started a company.
• The ENIAC in 1945 was a military project, with AT&T doing the wiring harnesses.
• etc.

Dates listed are completion dates, most of these projects took at least 3 years from conception to completion.

The first electronic computer made by a company was BINAC in 1949 by Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. Although it passed its acceptance test at the EMCC plant, it did not entirely survive disassembly-shipment-reassembly to the customer Northrop. It saw little use, due to unreliability, and Northrop was never satisfied with it.

Answer 4

Eckert Mauchley Computer Company, designed UNIVAC I and sold one computer called BINAC to the aircraft manufacturer Northrup. However before they could complete and sell the first UNIVAC I they ran into serious financial problems (neither J. Presper Eckert nor John Mauchley were competent businessmen) and Remington Rand purchased the company.

So Remington Rand was the first company to sell computers in quantity. They sold both the UNIVAC I and the ERA/UNIVAC 1101 (a machine designed for the NSA's predecessor organization by Engineering Research Associates, another company that ran into financial problems and Remington Rand purchased).

Answer 5

The first US commercially produced computer was the UNIVAC I in 1951, by Remington Rand. Prior to that all computers had been "one off" machines, custom made for or by each customer.

Note: the final UNIVAC I to be shut down and replaced by a newer machine was in 1971! It was owned by an insurance company in Tennessee.

Answer 6

That depends on how you define computer. The standard definition: a machine which can complete several computations without outside interference. Using that definition, the first computer was made by Charles Babbage using a machine that read hole-punches and provided an output.

Answer 7

The business use of a computer was by General Electric CORPORATION IN 1954

Answer 8

DEC

The PDP-8 in 1965.

Answer 9

Allen lambel inc