Which computer was considered the first electronic computer until 1973 when court invalidated the patent?
ENIAC computer was considered the first electronic computer until 1973 when court invalidated the patent.
At that time ENIAC, that had been created by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, was considered to be the first computer in the modern sense, but in 1973 a U.S. District Court invalidated the ENIAC patent and concluded that the ENIAC inventors had derived the subject matter of the electronic digital computer from.
ENIAC, World's First Computer. In 1946 the first computer was announced. It was called ENIAC, which stood for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.
Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College. Challenges to his claim were resolved in 1973 when the Honeywell v. Sperry Rand lawsuit ruled that Atanasoff was the inventor of the computer. His special-purpose machine has come to be called the Atanasoff–Berry Computer.