COMPUTER NETWORKING

Detailed explanation-1: -However, the first special-purpose electronic computer may actually have been invented by John Vincent Atanasoff, a physicist and mathematician at Iowa State College (now Iowa State University), during 1937–42.

Detailed explanation-2: -Major computer events in 1937 Iowa State College’s John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry began work on creating the binary-based ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer) in 1937, considered by most to be the first electronic digital computer.

Detailed explanation-3: -First Generation Computers The first generation of computers lasted from 1937-1946. The computers occupied full rooms and even whole floors of buildings, and weighed many tons. These computers used vacuum tubes for processing, instead of transistors that we use today.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.