I would have to say Charles Babbage, but that was as far as he got he was never able to build it. But it was entirely mechanical, designed to be powered by a steam engine, not electronic. However it had all the functional elements in much the same layout (ALU, Control, Memory, I/O) as modern electronic computers. Its architecture was Harvard not von Neumann though.
False. The first digital computer, called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC), was developed by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University in the 1930s for the purpose of solving systems of simultaneous equations. It was not specifically developed for conducting the census, although it did play a role in advancing computing technology and paved the way for future computer development.
It is a little hard to determine what was the first portable or laptop computer, the first portable computers did not look like the book-sized and folding laptops that we are familiar with today, however, they were both portable and lapable, and lead to the development of notebook style laptops. The first laptop designed in 1979 by a Briton, William Moggridge, for Grid Systems Corporation, the Grid Compass was one fifth the weight of any model equivalent in performance and was used by NASA on the space shuttle program in the early 1980's. The computer considered by most historians to be the first true portable computer was the Osborne 1. Adam Osborne, an ex-book publisher founded Osborne Computer and produced the Osborne 1 in 1981, a portable computer that weighed 24 pounds and cost $1795.
Colossus Mark II, an improvement on Colossus Mark I which was designed to crack the Germans' code during WWII in 1943/1944.
No! None of Babbage's designs would fit on a lap. The Analytical Engine (his only true computer) would have likely weighed 50 to 100 tons and was never built. All of his designs were "industrial equipment" designed for permanent stationary factory installation.
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Charles Babbage, but he was never able to get it built.
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False. The first digital computer, called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC), was developed by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University in the 1930s for the purpose of solving systems of simultaneous equations. It was not specifically developed for conducting the census, although it did play a role in advancing computing technology and paved the way for future computer development.
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The ancient Greeks actually made a computer. It was in a temple and when a person went into it the God responded. It was a simple computer but it was the first.
Yes. It's just like any other computer, but smaller and simpler. As such, it does less.
Yes, its true Apple computers can get viruses, but it is extremely unlikely due to the way they have been designed.
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