The first digital computer The ENIAC was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. Although the Judge ruled that the ABC computer was the first digital computer many still consider the ENIAC to be the first digital computer. (jan 18, 1943 – may 10, 1946)
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jan 18, 1943
may 10, 1946
~ 3 years and 3 months