text: can yall stop tellin me the computer was invented in the 60s? can more people answer the question "1939 john vincent atanasoff's special-purpose electronic digital computer "   1943,"by any standards colossus was one of the world's earliest working programmable electronic digital computers"   ______________  check out the following:  history of the computer http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm  the evolution of the computer http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/computer1.html