Early Computer History
Discussions debate the definition and history of the first computers, including ENIAC, Konrad Zuse's Z3, Charles Babbage's designs, human computers, and precursors like calculators or mechanical devices.
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atm yes. First computers were huge, slow and impractical too.
Your comment seems to be in conflict with this source: https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~jan/eniacproj.html
Humans were computers at one point, does that count?
I guess the definition of "computer" you have is "stored program machine", but a lot of other machines were called computers back then.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15108965https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4
LMGTFY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_the...Short answer: yep!
Wasn't this preceded by Konrad Zuse's Z1 and Z3?
Don't forget about Konrad Zuse's Z3!
in those days a computer was a thing that computes (a calculator) not necessarily featuring programs
Found a few posters on the history of computing:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22000407
You might like the IBM 1620.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1620#Anecdotes