In the 1980s and 1990s, they witnessed analog turning into all-digital, with the introduction of personal computers, mobile (bag) phones and the early internet. This generation experienced ...

The first modern electronic digital computer was called the Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC. It was built by physics Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry ...

Some historians, however, continued questioning ABC’s standing as the first electronic digital computer. The machine wasn’t suitable for general-purpose calculations, some historians say.