What were the specs of the first computer ever made?

I'm going to diverge a bit from the other answers and talk about Z1. Both ENIAC and the Manchester computers were fully electrical, but the Z1 was mechanical. It had a 64 word memory and 8 instructions. read more

I'm going to diverge a bit from the other answers and talk about Z1. Both ENIAC and the Manchester computers were fully electrical, but the Z1 was mechanical. It had a 64 word memory and 8 instructions. read more

Best Answer: It depends on what you call the first computer since there are various claimants to the title. My money is on the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine which in 1948 was the first machine to run what we would now call software: without software you have a calculator rather than a computer. read more