Where did computers came from?

Answer 1

You can't really put the credit on just one or two people. One guy discovered electricity (B. Franklin) then another guy used this electricity to make the first micro chip. Then another guy made another part that can be found in a PC, till voila! You got one great invention that was pieced together over thousands of years by thousands of different guys!

Try making your question more specific, like: "Who (what company or what group of nerds :P ) was responsible for making the version [put version name here] of the PC?" OR "Who made [put name of computer part here] and when did they make it?"

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Or if you want to just get right to the point, Ed Roberts of MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems--the company was founded to make telemetry equipment for model rockets, and its first successful product was a calculator) is considered the father of the personal computer. He designed the Altair 8800, which sold in kit form for about $400.

Now understand that a "computer kit" in the 1970s was far different from one today. If you were to "build your own computer" right now, you'd buy a big pile of prebuilt parts, put a premade operating system and premade programs on it, and be playing Doom within two or three hours. In the 1970s you got a printed circuit board with nothing soldered to it, and big bags of resistors, capacitors, integrated circuits and so on. And you better know how to read a resistor color code because that's the only labeling you were going to get. Added bonus: it LOOKED like a computer, which computers don't anymore.

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The first general purpose computer was the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) it was unveiled February 14, 1946 and created by John Adam Presper Eckert Jr and John Mauchly for the purpose of calculating artillery firing tables. It was also able to be reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems.

DECADES LATER, Henry Edward "Ed" Roberts invented the first commercially successful personal computer in 1975.
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Answer 2

Depends on your definition of computer. You can make arguments for ancient Greece or England or France. But if you define it as a programmable digital electronic device to solve problems, then they were invented in the US during WWII http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computers

Answer 3

I'm not too sure what you mean when you ask, Where did they come from?" Do you mean their composition, what they are made of, or their history? I'll answer assuming you meant their history. Konrad Zuse from Germany is credited with the invention of first freely programmable mechanical computer in 1939. Professor John Atanasoff and a graduate student Clifford Berry invented world's first electronic-digital computer in 1949. In 1944, a team of scientists Grace Hopper and Howard Aiken from Harvard University were the first to invent MARK series of computers. The computing device was a 55 feet long, 8-feet high machine and weighed 5 ton! It was assembled using almost 760,000 individual units. The computing device was largely used by US Navy and was operational till 1959. The Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator (EINAC) was invented in 1946 by John Mauchly & J Eckert. It was designed for the US Military who needed a calculating device for writing artillery firing tables, designing the hydrogen bomb, making weather predictions, outer space cosmic-ray studies, thermal ignition and wind-tunnel design. The computer weighed 30 tons and contained 17,468 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, 1,500 relays, 6,000 manual switches and 5 million soldered joints. It covered 1800 square feet (167 square meters) of floor space and used 160 kilowatts of electrical power. In 1948, Dr. John Von Neumann made many modifications to the ENIAC. The Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC) was invented by Dr. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. The UNIVAC had an add time of 120 microseconds; multiply time of 1,800 microseconds and a divide time of 3,600 microseconds. The original UNIVAC is still on display in the Smithsonian Institution. IBM, International Business Machines, built calculators in the 1930's. In 1944, IBM and Harvard University designed the MARK 1 computer, the first computer that could process long calculations automatically. In 1953, IBM designed the 701 EDPM. IBM claims that it was the first successful general purpose computer. From about 1955 on, other contributors such as Apple, Intel, Microsoft, MIT, Stanford Research Institute, and many others have made improvements and advancements to the computer industry. I hope this helps to answer your question.

Answer 4

The answer to the question as to what was the first computer can be debated. The earliest possible answer is the abacus, over 5000 years ago. In the last number of centuries there have been various machines designed and/or built that had the basic elements of a modern computer system, such as the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine designed by Charles Babbage in the 18th century. He is often called the father of computers. Many other important figures such as Hollerith and Napier made important contributions to computing and ideas for them. Electronic computers are products of the 20th century, from developments in the 1940s that have continued through to the present day. All of these things were influenced by the need to solve problems, such as basic counting that the abacus did, through to much more complex operations that modern computers carry out.

Answer 5

They are manufactured by companies such as Dell, Acer, Toshiba, Sony, etc., and about 60% of them are now made in China. Cheers.

Answer 6

First computer was made at Iowa State, and then they dropped it, and California took over.

But those were the size of a classroom.