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the first known computer on recored was used to caluculate answers to math problems.
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these computers where made to decode german transmicions used by the allied forces
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the transiter was manly used for the super computers when they where first made.
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C. A. R. Hoare developed Quicksort, an algorithm that would go on to become the most used sorting method in the world.
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Where i got my info from AT&T designed its Dataphone, the first commercial modem, specifically for converting digital computer data to analog signals for transmission across its long distance network.
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site i got this info from The precursor to the minicomputer, sold for $120,000. PDP-1 included with a cathode ray tube graphic display, needed no air conditioning and required only one operator. It´s large scope intrigued early hackers at MIT, who wrote the first computerized video game, SpaceWar!, for it. The SpaceWar! I got this from http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1960
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Pixar´s "Tin Toy" became the first computer-animated film to win an Academy Award
