How powerful was the first computer?

Answer 1

Calculations. More specifically, addition, from that even computers now days just use addition. For example, when you want to subtract something, it just adds a negative amount. When you want to multiply, it just adds that many times. For division it sees how many times it can "subtract" then shows the remainder as a decimal.

Answer 2

The computer has definitely increased in its capability since its early years. The first computer took up an entire room as opposed to the ones that can fit in our pocket today. The first computer was capable of solving complex problems faster then a human could.

Answer 3

The first (early 1st century BC) computer was perhaps the Antikythera mechanism. This was designed to calculate astronomical positions.

Charles Babbage's Difference Engine (1822) was a mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. He later proposed an Analytical Engine (1837) which was a general purpose (programmable) analogue computer.

Colossus was the world's first (December 1943) electronic digital computer that was all programmable. It was built by the British to help crack the German ENIGMA codes during WW2.

Answer 4

Only doing math problems i would think. it wuz just a box with a bunch of red lights.

Answer 5

it was about as powerful as modern-day calculators, and was as big as a 10x10 foot room.