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 quite
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A Brief History Of Computers The history of computers starts out about 2000 years ago‚ at the birth of the abacus‚ a wooden rack holding two horizontal wires with beads strung on them. When these beads are moved around‚ according to programming rules memorized by the user‚ all regular arithmetic problems can be done. Another important invention around the same time was the Astrolabe‚ used for navigation. Blaise Pascal is usually credited for building the first digital computer in 1642. It added
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The history of computers and evolution Computers have been around a lot longer than many people might imagine. The word "computer" has changed meaning over decades‚ but the electronic computer that we think of in modern times developed throughout the second half of the 20th century. Its popularity as a household item surged in the 1980s following the arrival of operating systems by Apple and Microsoft that mixed graphics and text‚ replacing the text-only systems of the 1970s. By the 1990s‚ computers
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THE HISTORY OF COMPUTER VIRUSES A Bit of Archeology There are lots and lots of opinions on the date of birth of the first computer virus. I know for sure just that there were no viruses on the Babbidge machine‚ but the Univac 1108 and IBM 360/370 already had them ("Pervading Animal" and "Christmas tree"). Therefore the first virus was born in the very beginning of 1970s or even in the end of 1960s‚ although nobody was calling it a virus then. And with that consider the topic of the extinct fossil
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First programmable computer: The Z1 originally created by Germany’s Konrad Zuse in his parents living room in 1936 to 1938 is considered to be the first electrical binary programmable computer. The first digital computer: Short for Atanasoff-Berry Computer‚ the ABC started being developed by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry in 1937 and continued to be developed until 1942 at the Iowa State College (now Iowa State University). On October 19‚ 1973‚ US Federal Judge
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ANONG SUBJECT COMPUTER: A History of the Data Machine Submitted by: Zerry Joy Diana C. Riman Submitted to: Sinong Teacher nyo Teache I‚ II‚ III‚ IV CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter I: Before the Computer Chapter II: Creating the Computer Chapter III: Innovation Chapter IV: Getting Personal Bibliography Index Part Three presents a selective history of some key computer innovations in the quarter-century
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History of generations of Computers The computers that you see and use today hasn’t come off by any inventor at one go. Rather it took centuries of rigorous research work to reach the present stage. And scientists are still working hard to make it better and better. But that is a different story. First‚ let us see when the very idea of computing with a machine or device‚ as against the conventional manual calculation‚ was given a shape. Though experiments were going on even earlier
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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 world). You
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A History of Electronic Dance Music By Naomi Clair | Culture | 19 March 2013‚ Tuesday Electronic Dance Music‚ also known as EDM (we at Poached Mag are not exactly big fans of that acronym)‚ has in recent years‚ taken over commercial music by storm. Big name producers such as David Guetta‚ Skrillex and Armin van Buuren have dominated airplay‚ and current crowd-friendly artistes like Rihanna and Lady Gaga have incorporated electronic elements into their pop-till-you-drop chart-toppers. However
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History Main article: History of Apple See also: Apple Inc. litigation 1976–1980: The early years The Apple I‚ Apple’s first product. Sold as an assembled circuit board‚ it lacked basic features such as a keyboard‚ monitor‚ and case. The owner of this unit added a keyboard and a wooden case. Apple was established on April 1‚ 1976 by Steve Jobs‚ Steve Wozniak‚ and Ronald Wayne‚[10] to sell the Apple I personal computer kit. They were hand-built by Wozniak[11][12] and first shown to the public
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