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What are Computers? Thainá Marini Nobrega - BCC 2021 Computer is an electronic device that processes information, its main objective is to carry out the most diverse types of operations. It is a machine that processes data to achieve a certain objective. The first computers were developed for military purposes, to calculate US Navy trajectories. During this period, John Von Neumann changed how computers were created from being electronic calculators to functioning as electronic brains. The existence of the computer can be observed between hardware and software. Hardware is part of the physical components of the computer. The software, on the other hand, is the computer programs. It's what we can't physically touch, but use the hardware to access. Software is executed by hardware, that is, it is contained within the hardware.