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View Poll Results: Which is the first computer?
Abacus (1000 BC - 500 BC) 3 33.33%
Mechanical Calculator (1623) 0 0%
Jacquard Loom aka punch card loom (1801) 0 0%
Atanasoff-Berry Computer (1937) 2 22.22%
Z1 (1937) 1 11.11%
Colossus (1944) 2 22.22%
Harvard Mark I (1944) 0 0%
ENIAC (1946) 1 11.11%
Other 0 0%
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Old October 3rd, 2006, 01:08 AM
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What do you say is the first true computer?

Abacus (1000 BC - 500 BC)
Mechanical Calculator (1623)
Jacquard Loom aka punch card loom (1801)
Atanasoff-Berry Computer (1937)
Z1 (1937)
Colossus (1944)
Harvard Mark I (1944)
ENIAC (1946)

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The ABC; because abacus wasn't electronic, the mechanical calculator wasn't programmable or electronic, and the loom was neither, nor did it actually compute anything.
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All those choices are wrong. The first computer was a human.
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Old October 3rd, 2006, 08:12 AM
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the loom was a programmable machine though, so it's got that going for it
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The ABC; because abacus wasn't electronic, the mechanical calculator wasn't programmable or electronic, and the loom was neither, nor did it actually compute anything.
I disagree, computers don't HAVE to be electronic.

The normal argument with academics is whether the abacus or Napier's rods were the first computer.

Who cares, my first one was a Dragon 32 !
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I disagree, computers don't HAVE to be electronic.
It depends on your definition of "computer". Though if one chooses the definition that doesn't specify the form, one must consider that the first computer was biological ie. a multi-celled organism (eat that, academics!). Though of course if one specifies it has to be a mechanical device, this means modern-day PCs aren't computers at all.

I'm sure someone will come up with a standard definition of "computer" we can follow, and when we do, there'll be much controversy (remember that little problem we had with the word "planet"?).
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I had a ZX81........arghhh!!!

Apparently the first bug to shut down a computer was this moth.

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yes that what i was told

first bug toi shut down a computer was a moth and the second was a cockroach haha
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It's still hard to see how technology has improved.....the first hard drive was 5MB and was the size of 2 refridgerators.........now thousands of times the storage gets lost at the bottom of a purse......
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