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I question the Swedish answer, since mnost inovation in the modern computer was made in America so
I checked Wikipedia and most of the modern computers are invented in good ole USA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/computer...
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SwedenAtlantis. Computers have been around in mechanical form since ancient Egyptian times.
Depends how you define "computer"....
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Usually, that implies the ability to operate on a series of preset instructions, so that rules out the abacus., or counting with stones, etc.
Arguably, the first machine that you could pre-set to solve a specific problem was Babbage's Differential Engine (He was British)
Or maybe you could include Bouchon and Falcon, from France, who developed the punch-card for running weaving looms, in the early 1700's
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The first electromechanical problem solver was "the Bletchley Bomb",or "Turing-Welchman bombe" to solve wartime codes. (This is the same Alan Turing who gave us the "Turing test".)
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Probably the first "real" programmable electronic computer, as we understand the term today, would be ENIAC, developed for the US military in the mid-1940's. It was originally intended to work on artillery firing solutions, but it got kind of "borrowed" to help develop the hydrogen bomb, instead
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There's sometting really depressing about finding the computer you learned your trade on, in a museum... in my case, an Elliott 903.
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