BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Analytic Engine
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Atanasoff-Berry Computer
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Difference Engine
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ENIAC
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) was the world’s first electronic digital computer.
Detailed explanation-2: -(October 4, 1903-June 15, 1995) John Vincent Atanasoff is known as the father of the computer. With the help of one of his students Clifford E. Berry, in Iowa State College, during the 1940s, he created the ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer) that was the first electronic digital computer.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Atanasoff–Berry computer (ABC) was the first automatic electronic digital computer. Limited by the technology of the day, and execution, the device has remained somewhat obscure. The ABC’s priority is debated among historians of computer technology, because it was neither programmable, nor Turing-complete.