[GreenKeys] First Electronic Computer

[Gary Chatters]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 WA5CAB@cs.com wrote:

> Group,
>
> This may be a little off topic but the I/O devices were almost certainly TTY
> machines.  My old boss asked me recently what was the generally accepted
> "first electronic computer" and who is credited with building or designing
> it.  Anyone know?  I'm sure that the early electro-mechanical calculators
> don't qualify.  From what I recall, they were just motor driven versions of
> the hand cranked ones.  I started to say the ENIAC or the ENIGMA machines
> (Bombe's) but can't the books I am supposed to have on the latter.
>

Here's a link to a web page on the ENIAC

http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/milestones_photos/eniac.html

This is listed as the "first large-scale electronic general-purpose
digital computer".  I think there may have been one or two before the
ENIAC, but maybe with not so many qualifiers.

Gary