who made the first computer?
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A device that was named the "Antikythera mechanism" bc discovered in 1900 in a sunken ship just off the coast of Antikythera, an island between Crete and the Greek mainland. It was dated to approximately 80 BC.\nGiven the age there is reason to believe that archimedes or his disciples might have been involved with developement of this device. But, at a minimum, the answer is the ancient greeks. It is as sophisticated as the babbage computer and was used to predict the positions of the sun moon and palnets on any date.
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For the keyboard question, click on the link below:\n\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltypewriter.htm\n\nAs for the weight of the first generation of computers...they varied.  ENIAC (an acronym for Electronic Numerator, Integrator, Analyser and Computer) was a leviathan in the computing world and weighed in at over 30,000kg (the average small car is 1000kg). This beast occupied over 90 sq/m (1,000 square feet) of floor space.  It has over 17,000 thermionic valves and needed thousands of kilowatts of electricity to operate.  It has 20, 10 digit accumulators, clocked at 100Hz and could do 5,000 additions and over 300 multiplications per second.  ENIAC was built for the US Army's Ballistics Research Labs but came in too late for major use in World War 2 (1945) and was way over budget.\n\nI did an assignment for this in 2001 and it was a fascinating subject.  Incidentally, the abacus is considered by many to be the worlds first computing device...invented over 4000 years ago.
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The first computer bug is said to have been a moth that was found squashed between the points of an electromechanical relay in the Mark II computer in 1945. This moth caused the entire computer to shut down. When the moth was removed, it was affixed to the computer’s log with a scribbled note that read, “First actual case of bug being found.” When the computer operators removed the moth, they claimed to have “debugged” the computer, thus introducing the term “debugging a computer program.”\n\nFrom then onwards, all software programming defects are also termed as “Bugs”\n\nBy the way, this first bug is now housed in the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian.
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"The first of the "modern" computers was invented during World War II, in 1941 by a German engineer named Konrad Zuse. The computer was called the Z3 and was used to help design German airplanes and missles."
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The first computer program ever was a set of instructions punched into cards. \n\nThis kind of programming was used by Charles Babbage on his difference engines. The first reported program was written, or rather punched, by Babbages co-worker Ada Lovelace.\n\nThe first computers in the modern sense were constructed more than a century later by Konrad Zuse. They received their instructions by manually entering the first couple of bytes to initialize the processor and determine which hard-wired operations to perform.\n\nThese instructions were very basic boolean arithmetics - comparison of values, etc.
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I guess u mean who is thr discoverer of computers..well the Father of Computers is Charles Babbage.
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Nobody discovered a computer. It was invented. As far as who acctually invented the computer is still being debated to this day.
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How exactly do you discover a computer? I was under the impression that all computers were built by human beings. I would really like to discover computers as well.
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That depends on what you mean by "computer".  The basis of any computing machine is the ability to do input, processing and output.  The core of what makes it a computer is to handle "whatif" questions and to respond differently based on the answer to those questions.  For example, to say, "If the dollar amount is less than X then do this, but if it's greater than X then do that.\n\nBy that definition, the first true computer would probably be Charles Babbage's "Difference Engine" built in the late 1800s.  An improved version, which he called the "Analytical Engine" actually accepted punch card programs, the first of which was written by Lord Byron's daughter, Ada Lovelace, making her the world's first computer programmer.\n\nThe first truly modern electronic computer was, arguably, the ENIAC developed for the US Army by the University of Pennsylvania.  I say "arguably" because it depends on which features you want to include in the definition of "modern electronic computer."  For example, the ENIAC had no stored memory and had to be rewired for each program.\n\nHope this helps.
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Charles Babbage, It was his initiative of the differential engine which led to the evolution of computer. For this reason, he's considered the father of computing.
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Hello,\n\nPlease see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing for a great article with many links to learning about the history of computing on my favorite site Wikipedia.org. \n\nIf you feel that I've answered your question please close your question so I can receive points for my answer. \n\nThanks,\n\nV
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i guess you mean hand-held electronic calculator which uses chip.\n\nTexas, a company, made the first electronic calculator. Jack Kilby, who invented chip (Robert Noyce too is credited to be the inventor of chip), worked in the team which made the first calculator.\n\nThe first calculator did not have the screen but it printed the result on a thermal paper using printer attached to the calculator itself. Don't get the idea of the printer being very large. The first calculator was small enough to be used conveniently.
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when microsoft came about
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
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Here's an interesting page about early PC's. Keep scrolling down when the page opens.  It's rather interesting. \nhttp://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml\n\nAnd, here's Wiki's entry:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware
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tierrecarter, Bill Gates didn't invent the PC. IBM invented the PC, but got its OS from Microsoft (who didn't write it, they bought it from another firm, who didn't "invent" it either, as it was a clone of Digital Research's CP/M).\n\nSince Charles Babbage has already been mentioned, I'd like to drop a word in for Alan Turing, whose theroies are essential for modern computing, or Tommy Flowers, who used Turing's theories to produce Colossus, the first digital, programmable, electronic computer.
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Babbage - first "calculator" technically a computer