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this process . An early type of specialised computer made in England was the Colossus , which
helped to break the codes used for enemy messages in World War II Then the Harvard Mark I
( 1943 ) was developed at Harvard University . It was the first automatic computer , but it was
partly mechanical and not fully programmable .
In 1946 the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator or ENIAC was built and it became
the first electronic , programmable computer . It was developed at the University of
Pennsylvania , USA , and it was so big that filled several rooms . Since then computer
technology has evolved a great deal in a relatively short time . But the breakthrough in the
development of computers as we know them today was the invention of the microchip in the
1970's , which made computers smaller , faster and more dependable . It has been said that if
transport technology had developed as rapidly as computer technology , a p across the Atlantic
Ocean would take only a few seconds now .