Do you remember the BBC Micro? Does the Sinclair ZX80 ring a bell? Perhaps the stocky Commodore PET or the petite VIC-20? No? If you're under 30, I'm not surprised. If you're over 30, then perhaps ...
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, in 1942 ...