Who invented the small computer?

Answer 1

This is usually credited to Ted Hoff for the Intel 4004.

However a secret military microcomputer for the F-14 fighter predates his work by roughly 3 years. It was not declassified until the late 1980s. It does not have a single identified inventor as it was a team project.

Answer 2

John Vincent Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in 1936 and finished building it in 1942. It was about the size of an office desk, much smaller than many later electronic digital computers until the late 1950s.

Answer 3

The first microprocessor chip was the 4004 developed by Intel in 1971. The principle designers were Federico Faggin and Ted Hoff of Intel, and Masatoshi Shima of Busicom.

Answer 4

Nobody, computers gradually got smaller and smaller as the technology permitted it.

Answer 5

I don't know what you mean by macrocomputer. In my 30 years in the industry, I never encountered this term.