--- title: "What year was Electronic Computer invented and how?" description: "What year was Electronic Computer invented and how?" author: "Gurmeet Kaur" published: 2018-08-29 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49087/what-year-was-electronic-computer-invented-and-how category: "innovation, discovery and technology" tags: ["innovation, discovery and technology"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # What year was Electronic Computer invented and how? What year was Electronic [Computer invented](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49666/when-was-macintosh-computer-invented) and how?\ \ \ ## Answers ### Answer by Harshal Vispute **John Vincent Atanasoff, OCM**, was an **American physicist** and **[inventor](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/38648/who-are-the-top-10-inventors-of-the-21st-century)** who is best known for building the first **electrical digital computer**. He lived from **October 4, 1903 to June 15, 1995.** \ In the **1930s, Atanasoff created the first electronic digital computer at Iowa State College (now known as Iowa State University)**. When the **Honeywell v. Sperry Rand litigation was settled in 1973**, it was determined that Atanasoff was the computer's inventor. **The Atanasoff–Berry Computer is the name given to his special-purpose machine**. \ By **November of that year**, the **Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC)** had been prototyped thanks to a **$650 grant** and the help of his doctoral student **Clifford Berry**. Several functional concepts of the ABC, according to Atanasoff, were created during **a drive to Rock Island, Illinois in the winter of 1938.** \ To answer up to **29 simultaneous linear equations,** the **ABC used binary math and Boolean logic as core concepts**. The ABC was not developed with a **central processing unit (CPU)**, but rather as an electrical device that used vacuum tubes to perform **digital calculations**. It also contained regenerative capacitor memory, which worked in a similar way to how **DRAM memory** works today. --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49087/what-year-was-electronic-computer-invented-and-how Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.