History of Computers

  • Period: to

    Vacuum Tube Era

    A modern era of computers.
  • First Digital Computer

    First Digital Computer
    First Digital Computer created by John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry. This computer could solve up to 29 equations and was purely digital.
  • The Colossus

    The Colossus
    This computer was used to solve German cryptic codes. This computer was fully digital & programmable. This computer was invented by Alan Turing.
  • ENIAC

    ENIAC
    This was the first high speed computer and could solve a large amount of equations. This computer was invented by both John Mauchly & J. Prosper Eckert
  • EDVAC

    EDVAC
    John Von Neuman created the first stored program computer. This computer was binary in using numbers.
  • ESDAC

    ESDAC
    This computer invented by Maurice Wilkes was the second digitally stored program computer.