Why were computers made?

Answer 1

Computers were made to do the very tedious computations of everyday life and business. The first calculators performed computations in seconds that would take someone using a slide rule minutes if not hours to do. Calculations for NASA entry and exit trajectories would take days or even weeks to calculate by hand and the first mainframe computers would do the calculations in minutes. Hope this helps you. cblair91: the first computer was used to crack the german code in world war I and ever scince then they have become famous and then NASA started suing them, later in the line microsoft came in and started making them to sell to houses and industrys.

Answer 2

To do calculations that far exceeded what was practical to do by hand or assisted with mechanical calculators and/or slide rules.

Originally "computer" was a job title for a human hired to do calculations either by hand or assisted with mechanical calculators and/or slide rules. Many companies employed thousands of human computers. They often worked 12 hour days 6 days a week to keep up with the demand for calculations. When electronic digital computers started being installed in those companies, many of these human computers learned to program them, becoming some of the early computer programmers.

Answer 3

Because human computers were being overloaded with large problems, were too slow, and made too many errors.

Answer 4

To compute, faster and more reliably than humans could by themselves.