Rudimentary calculating devices first appeared in antiquity and mechanical calculating aids were invented in the 17th century. The first recorded use of the word "computer" is also from the 17th century‚ applied to human computers‚ people who performed calculations‚ often as employment. The first computer devices were conceived of in the 19th century‚ and only emerged in their modern form in the 1940s. First general-purpose computing device A portion of Babbage’s Difference engine. Charles
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Data processing is a shop that works in many different working fields. One thing you do in data processing is learning to computer programming. In my shop we are learning to program in Visual Basic and QuickBasic. Programming is used to tell a computer what to do. Using code you can make programs that can answer math problems‚ which would take someone‚ days to calculate in a brief second. In data processing we also learn to word process. Word processing is taking written text and being able to save
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1. Pengertian era : Era merupakan kurung waktu atau periode terjadinya sebuah peristiwa yang terjadi hanya pada periode kurung waktu tersebut. Dimulainya sebuah persitiwa pada suatu waktu dan berakhir dalam jangka waktu tertentu merupakan kurung waktu sebuah era itu terjadi. Era akan terus berbeda dan berubah sesuai dengan berlakunya masa tersebut. Komunikasi merupakan kebutuhan utama yang selalu dilakukan‚digunakan‚ dan dibutuhkan manusia terutama dalam menyampaikan dan menerima sebuah pesan
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“The Computer” It’s History and Spot in American Society “The Computer” It’s History and Spot in American Society It is not very often that a new invention comes about and touches every aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work‚ live‚ and play is a special one‚ indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the U.S. and in one out of every two households. This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic
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HISTORY OF COMPUTERS AND THE INTERNET OUTLINE 1B MODULE Steps Toward Modern Computing 31 First Steps: Calculators 31 The Technological Edge: Electronics 31 Putting It All Together: The ENIAC 36 The Stored-Program Concept 36 The Computer’s Family Tree 37 The First Generation (1950s) 37 The Second Generation (Early 1960s) 38 The Third Generation (Mid-1960s to Mid-1970s) 39 The Fourth Generation (1975 to the Present) 41 A Fifth Generation? 44 The Internet Revolution 45 Lessons Learned 48
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The History of Computers Whether you know it or not you depend on computers for almost every thing you do in modern day life. From the second you get up in the morning to the second you go to sleep computer are tied into what you do and use in some way. It is tied in to you life in the most obvious and obscure ways. Take for example you wake up in the morning usually to a digital alarm clock. You start you car it uses computers the second you turn the key (General Motors is the largest buyers
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HISTORY OF THE COMPUTER ARTICLE WRITTEN BY: ADEBOWALE ONIFADE ELECTRICAL ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN NIGERIA REGION 8 HISTORY OF THE COMPUTER ABSTRACT This paper takes a keen look at the history of computer technology with a view to encouraging computer or electrical electronic engineering students to embrace and learn the history of their profession and its technologies. Reedy (1984) quoted Aldous Huxley thus: “that men do not learn very much from the
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Etymology The first recorded use of the word “computer” was in 1613 in a book called “The yong mans gleanings” by English writer Richard Braithwait I haue read the truest computer of Times‚ and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed‚ and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number. It referred to a person who carried out calculations‚ or computations‚ and the word continued with the same meaning until the middle of the 20th century. From the end of the 19th century the word began to take on its
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Whether you know it or not you depend on computers for almost every thing you do in modern day life. From the second you get up in the morning to the second you go to sleep computer are tied into what you do and use in some way. It is tied in to you life in the most obvious and obscure ways. Take for example you wake up in the morning usually to a digital alarm clock. You start you car it uses computers the second you turn the key (General Motors is the largest buyers of computer components in the
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A Brief History of Computer Nikita Rechal1 and Sooriyan Aliyoglu2 1Department of Computer Engineering‚ Castle University‚ New City‚ Cyprus a.orther@xx.yy.zz 2MediDeniz Software‚ Old Street‚ New York‚ USA a.etherwen@zzz.com Abstract Computers have wedged themselves into every facet of our lives—they are what we would use as the symbolic representation of the modern world. But did you know that the history of computers dates back to the 1800s?Indeed‚ the history and evolution of computers is
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