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When Was the First Programmable Computer Built?
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Quick Answer
Germany's Konrad Zuse completed the Z3, the first programmable computer, in 1941.
The Full Story
Konrad Zuse's Z3, completed in Berlin in May 1941, is generally considered the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer. It used about 2,600 telephone relays and could perform floating-point arithmetic. Britain's Colossus (1943) was the first electronic programmable computer, built to crack German codes. The American ENIAC (1945) was the first general-purpose electronic computer. These machines launched the computing revolution that now underpins nearly every aspect of modern life.
Key Facts
1.The Z3 was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid in 1943.
2.ENIAC weighed about 27 tonnes and occupied an entire room.
3.Colossus was kept secret until the 1970s.
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"From Z3 to ENIAC — The First Computers Ever Built"