Was ENIAC the first computer?

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Yes, ENIAC was the first electronic digital computer (what most people refer to as "computers" today), however different sorts of mechanical computers had been developed before it.

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  • ENIAC was NOT the 1st Programmable Electronic Computer! Colossus was a sophisticated programmable electronic computer developed by the Top Secret Code Breaking MK ULTRA at Bletchley Park (England's Secret Military Intelligence Decoding Unit). Colossus was built for the purposes of breaking NAZI radio transmission which had been encoded using the NAZI Lorenz cipher system. Sir Flower's First Colossus was up and running in England during 1941, about 2 years prior to invention of ENIAC. So, COLOSSUS was the world's first computer.

  • Colossus was the first ELECTRONIC computer. It was developed to crack the LORENZ codes the German high command was using (which was more difficult than Enigma). Until recently ENIAC was thought to be the first, but the secrecy of Colossus was finally lifted and we find it (and 9 others) were first operational in Jan 1944 while various portions of ENIAC were made operational in the period of June 1944 through October 1945.
 

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