text: "1939 John Vincent Atanasoff's Special-Purpose Electronic Digital Computer "\n\n\n1943,"By any standards COLOSSUS was one of the world's earliest working programmable electronic digital computers" \n\n______________\n\nCheck out the following:\n\nHistory of the computer\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm\n\nThe Evolution of the Computer\nhttp://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/computer1.html