Who actually made the first computer?

Try the Greeks, 2000 years ago or more. You might start by checking out the Antikythera mechanism, and then go from there.

It depends on what you consider a computer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computing_2400_BC%E2%80%931949

I found an easier breakdown here:

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm

a lebombo bone of contention?

The first electronic computer was invented by Prof. Atanasoff at Iowa State University before WWII. It was called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer - ABC. Professor Atanasoff was a Mathematics and Physics professor working on the trajectories of missiles and artillary shells. He solved the problem of digital logic by using the hexidecimal system that enabled the processing of data thru the Arithmetic Logical Unit, ALU, of the processor. He built the computer with the help of a grad student in electrical engineering named Clifford Berry. He discussed the working of the digital computer with a Professor Mauchly from Harvard who built a massive computer, ENIAC, with government grant and was falsely acclaimed as the inventor of the first electronic computer.

http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/ABC/

Ooops, Mauchly was of Univ. of Pennsylvania not Harvard.

solipsister is clearly mentally ill.

a bad case of sol and you don't know about lebombo huh