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Evolution of Computer

The document provides a history of computers from early calculating devices like the abacus and slide rule to modern electronic computers. It describes many important early inventions and innovators in the field such as Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, John Atanasoff, and John Presper Eckert that helped develop the first programmable electronic computers. The summary traces the evolution of computing technology from mechanical to electronic devices and highlights some of the pioneers that advanced the development of the modern computer.

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Evolution of Computer

The document provides a history of computers from early calculating devices like the abacus and slide rule to modern electronic computers. It describes many important early inventions and innovators in the field such as Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, John Atanasoff, and John Presper Eckert that helped develop the first programmable electronic computers. The summary traces the evolution of computing technology from mechanical to electronic devices and highlights some of the pioneers that advanced the development of the modern computer.

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Computer 6

Prayer

Angel of God Ever this day


My guardian dear Be at my side
To whom God’s Love To light and guard
Commits me here, To rule and guide
Amen.
- A computer is an electronic machine that
accepts information, stores it, processes it
according to the instruction provided by a
user and then returns the result as it is
defined today.
- The first use of the word “computer” was
recorded in 1613, referring to a person who
carried out calculations, or computations, and
the world continued to be used in that sense
th
until the middle of the 20 century.
- A tally stick was an ancient
memory aid device to record
and document numbers,
quantities, or even messages.
- An abacus is a mechanical
device used to aid an individual
in performing mathematical
calculations. It was invented in
Babylonia in 2400 B.C. and
was first used in China.
-Invented by John Napier in
1614. It allowed the operator to
multiply, divide and calculate
square and cube roots by moving the
rods around and placing them in
specially constructed boards.
-Invented by William
Oughtred in 1622. It is based
on Napier’s ideas about logarithm
and was used primarily for
multiplication, division, roots,
logarithms, and Trigonometry.
-Invented by William
Schickard. It is considered the first
mechanical calculator. It is composed of
rotating rods and gears on upright
frame. The rods represented columns of
numbers, and the gears moved the rods
display the result.
-Invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642. It had its
limitation to addition and subtraction. It was too
expensive.
-Invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
in 1672. It is the machine that can add, subtract,
multiply and divided automatically.
-It is a mechanical loom,
invented by Joseph-
Marie Jacquard in
1881. It is an automatic loom
controlled by punched cards.
-It is a mechanical calculator, invented
by Thomas de Colmar in 1820. It
was the first reliable, useful and
commercially successful calculating
machine. The machine could perform the
four basic mathematic functions. The
first mass-produced calculating
machine.
-It is an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate
polynomial functions, invented by Charles Babbage in 1822
and 1834. It is the first mechanical computer.
-Invented by Per George Scheutz in 1843, based on
Charles Babbage’s difference engine. The first printing
calculator.
-Invented by Herman Hollerith in 1890. To assist in
summarizing information and accounting.
-Invented by Howard H. Aiken in 1943. The first
electro-mechanical computer.
-Invented by Howard H. Aiken in 1943. The first
electro-mechanical computer.
- It is the first electronic digital computing device.
- Invented by Professor John Atanasoff and
graduate student Clifford Berry at Lowa State
University between 1939 and 1942.
- Designed in 1943 by British scientist Alan Turing, this
computer was used to decode German messages.
- It was the first electronic general-purpose computer.
- Completed in 1945. Developed by John Presper Eckert, and
John W. Mauchly.
- It was the first commercial computer.
- Was designed by John Presper Eckert, and John W.
Mauchly.
- the first stored program computer.
- Was designed by Von Neumann in 1952. It has a memory to
hold both stored program as well as data.
- It was the first portable computer.
- Released in 1981 by the Osborne Computer Corporation.
Closing
Prayer

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