With a masterâs degree, the average annual starting salary was $64,100. The 25th percentile earned $51,500, the 50th percentile made $62,000, and the 75th percentile earned $73,900.
First mechanical computer or automatic computing engine concept. In 1822, Charles Babbage purposed and began developing the Difference Engine, considered to be the first automatic computing engine that was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making a hard copies of the results.
Â· just now. Report Abuse. The first computers were wired together using electrically activated switches, either relays or vacuum tubes. A relay-based computer was started in Germany in 1933, but didn't get funding because the new Nazi government did not see a use for it (thankfully!). The first operational computer was called ENIAC and was was built using miles of wire and thousands of vacuum tube switches. Built in the 1940's, it was used in the development of the nuclear bomb.