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An english mathematician Charles Babbage designed a mechanical computing machine called the "analytical engine."
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Konrad Zuse created the first functional computer called the Z1 in his parents living room.
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Tommy Flowers developed the first electic programmable computer called the Colossus and the first to demostrate it.
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J. Presper Eckert invented the ENIAC and is the first stored program electronic computer. Was the first computer that ran the first graphical computer game.
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The first computer company was known as the Electronic Controls Company. But was later Renamed as the EMCC or Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation.
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Ed Roberts coined the term personal computer when he introduced the Altair 8800.The computer relied on a series of switches for inputting data and output data by turning on and off a series of lights.
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The IBM 5100 is the first portable computer, witch was released on september 1975. The computer weighed 55 pounds and had a five inch CRT display, tape drive, 1.9MHz processor, and 64KB of RAM.
