History of Computer Introduction Man’s progress is measured by sophistication of his tools. First‚ he discovered how to control fire. Eventually‚ he invented the wheel. He built boats and earned to harness the wind. As soon as commerce developed in the early societies‚ people recognized the need to calculate and keep track of information. They soon devised simple computing devices and bookkeeping systems to enable them to add‚ subtract‚ and simple record transactions. Today‚ we are witnessing
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The History of the Computer Long before computers were invented‚ humans realized the need for them. The history of the Computer started about 2000 years ago with the abacus. It is a wooden rack holding two horizontal wires with beads strung on them and was one of the best calculating machines until the seventeenth century (PBS‚ 1). In 1835‚ English inventor‚ Charles Babbage came up with the idea of the Analytical Machine‚ a general purpose‚ fully programmed-controlled‚ automatic mechanical digital
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History of Computers Glenn G. Fabia Department of Computer Science Ateneo de Naga University A typical computer operation back when computers were people. Counting Tables History of Computers 2 A Modern Day Abacus (Oldest surviving‚ 300 B.C) Note how the abacus is really just a representation of the human fingers: the 5 lower rings on each rod represent the 5 fingers and the 2 upper rings represent the 2 hands. History of Computers 3 Napier’s Bones In 1617 John Napier
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Assignment # 01 History Of Computers Introduction To Computer Submitted by Irrum Fatima 2013-B.env-029 2nd Semester Environmental Sciences Submitted to Madiha Wahid Department of Environmental Sciences FJWU – Rawalpindi Computers Computers are the Electronic Device Have Storing Capabilities Have Processing Capabilities Give outputs against inputs Give instructions to carry out operations and then store in memories Computers made our lives easy and reliable. Now a day‚ computer becomes necessary
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The History of Computers A computer is a machine built to do routine calculations with speed‚ reliability‚ and ease‚ greatly simplifying processes that without them would be a much longer‚ more drawn out process. Since their introduction in the 1940’s. Computers have become an important part of the world. Besides the systems found in offices‚ and homes‚ microcomputers are now used in everyday locations such as automobiles‚ aircrafts‚ telephones‚ and kitchen appliances. Computers are used for
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schoolschool code:080020registration number: | Electronic Document Preparation Management (exemplar 1) | The History of Computer | Table of Contents The History of Computer 1 Who was the father of computer? 2 THE FIVE GENERATIONS OF COMPUTER 3 What computer was produced by J.Presper Eckert and John Mauchly 4 A Description Of The Device 4 The History of Computer 1. The Abacus: Is a calculating tool used primarily in parts of Asia for performing arithmetic processes? The
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History of Computers Table of Contents Table of Contents . .2 Abstract . 3 Body of Research .4 - 6 Conclusion . 7 Bibliography ..8 Abstract This project explains the history of computers‚ starting from Howard Aiken’s Harvard Mark I to present day time. Although I have not gone over all of the models in my report‚ I have chosen those which I feel have had the greatest effect on the computer world. I will show how in just forty years‚ computers
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HISTORY OF COMPUTER THE PRE-MECHANICAL AGE: 3000 B.C. – 1450 A.D. 1. Writing and Alphabets – Communication First development of signs corresponding to spoken sounds‚ instead of pictures‚ to express words. Around 2000 B.C.‚ Phoenicians created symbols that expressed single syllables and consonants (the first true alphabet) The Greeks later adopted the Phoenician alphabet and added vowels; the Romans gave the letters Latin names to create the alphabet we use today. 2. Paper
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History of Computers ENG 121 The volume and use of computers in the world are so great‚ they have become difficult to ignore anymore. Computers appear to us in so many ways that many times‚ we fail to see them as they actually are. People associated with a computer when they purchased their morning coffee at the vending machine. As they drove themselves to work‚ the traffic lights that so often hampered us are controlled by computers in an attempt to speed the journey. Accept it or not‚ the computer
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Brief History of Computers (A Look Back at Computing) Computers have become one of the most important parts of modern society. Nearly everything that is modern required or uses computer related technology in some way. But how did computers as we know them come to exist? Did someone sitting in his lab just one day say‚ "Aha! I’ve got it! The computer?! Well‚ no‚ that is not how this happened. Rather‚ many years of brilliant ideas and research from many different individuals contributed
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