John Vincent Atanasoff

John Atanasoff was the inventor of the first electronic digital computer, with the help of an electric engineer named Clifford E. Berry. This computer was called the ABC which stands for the Atanasoff-Berry Computer. This computer was not a general-purpose computer, but instead it was created to solve systems of simultaneous up to 29 linear equations. This means this computer could take in two linear equations at once with 29 variables and a constant. Then the computer would eliminate the variables and figure out the solution. This computer could not store program instructions which makes it different from modern computers. John Atanasoff was born Oct. 4, 1903 and died June 15, 1995. To learn more about John Atanasoff click here.