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The document discusses the history of computers from early mechanical devices like the abacus to modern electronic computers. It describes the first manual and electromechanical computers like Napier's Bones and Pascal's calculator. Important developments included Babbage's Analytical Engine, the first general-purpose computer concept; Zuse's Z1, the first programmable computer; and the Colossus, the first electric programmable computer. The ENIAC was the first electronic general-purpose computer and the Von Neumann architecture formed the basis for modern computer design.

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Lesson 1 COMP01

The document discusses the history of computers from early mechanical devices like the abacus to modern electronic computers. It describes the first manual and electromechanical computers like Napier's Bones and Pascal's calculator. Important developments included Babbage's Analytical Engine, the first general-purpose computer concept; Zuse's Z1, the first programmable computer; and the Colossus, the first electric programmable computer. The ENIAC was the first electronic general-purpose computer and the Von Neumann architecture formed the basis for modern computer design.

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MARIANO MARCOS STATE UNIVERSITY

College of Engineering

COMP01
COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS
AND PROGRAMMING

COE Bldg. #16S Quiling Sur, City of Batac, Ilocos Norte


[email protected]  (007)600 0358 www.mmsu.edu.ph
MARIANO MARCOS STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Engineering

LESSON 1
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

The word "computer" was first recorded as being used in 1613 and was originally was used to describe a
human who performed calculations or computations. The definition of a computer remained the same
until the end of the 19th century when people began to realize machines never get tired and can
perform calculations much faster and more accurately than any team of human computers ever could.

3 TYPES OF DEVICES:

 MANUAL MECHANICAL – By Hand

 ELECTROMECHANICAL – Manipulated by control

 ELECTRONIC – Principle and more advance components are present

 One of the first considered computers was the Abacus Calculator which was use in the early
ages.
 Also referred to as COUNTING FRAME

COE Bldg. #16S Quiling Sur, City of Batac, Ilocos Norte


[email protected]  (007)600 0358 www.mmsu.edu.ph
MARIANO MARCOS STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Engineering

*1s t Abacus from sand and stone

ABAX - Also known as the sand table

COE Bldg. #16S Quiling Sur, City of Batac, Ilocos Norte


[email protected]  (007)600 0358 www.mmsu.edu.ph
MARIANO MARCOS STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Engineering

NAPIER’S BONES by John Napier

OUGHTRED’S SLIDE RULE by William Oughtred

 Direct multiplication and division up to two digits

PASCAL’S CALCULATOR by Blaise Pascal

 Also referred to as Arithmetic Machine


 Primarily intended as an adding machine w/c could add and subtract 2 numbers directly

COE Bldg. #16S Quiling Sur, City of Batac, Ilocos Norte


[email protected]  (007)600 0358 www.mmsu.edu.ph
MARIANO MARCOS STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Engineering

LEIBNIZ’S CALCULATOR by Gottfried Leibniz

 Also referred to as Step Reckoner


 Binary to Decimal
 Multiplication by repeated addition and shifting

First Mechanical Computer

 In 1822, Charles Babbage conceptualized and began developing the Difference Engine,
considered to be the first automatic computing engine that was capable of computing several
sets of numbers and making hard copies of the results. Unfortunately, because of funding he
was never able to complete a full-scale functional version of this machine. In June of 1991, the
London Science Museum completed the Difference Engine No 2 for the bicentennial year of
Babbage's birth and later completed the printing mechanism in 2000.

General Mechanical Computer

 Later, in 1837 Charles Babbage proposed the first general mechanical


computer, the Analytical Engine. The Analytical Engine contained an
Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), basic flow control, and integrated memory
and is the first general-purpose computer concept. Unfortunately,
because of funding issues this computer was also never built while
Charles Babbage's was alive. In 1910, Henry Babbage, Charles
Babbage's youngest son was able to complete a portion of this
machine and was able to perform basic calculations.

COE Bldg. #16S Quiling Sur, City of Batac, Ilocos Norte


[email protected]  (007)600 0358 www.mmsu.edu.ph
MARIANO MARCOS STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Engineering

First Programmable Computer

 The Z1, originally created by Germany's Konrad Zuse in his parents' living room in 1936 to 1938
and is considered to be the first electro - mechanical binary programmable (modern) computer
and really the first functional computer.

First Concepts of a Modern Computer

 The Turing machine was first proposed by Alan Turing in 1936 and became the foundation for
theories about computing and computers. The machine was a device that printed symbols on
paper tape in a manner that emulated a person following a series of logical instructions.
Without these fundamentals, we wouldn't have the computers we use today.

COE Bldg. #16S Quiling Sur, City of Batac, Ilocos Norte


[email protected]  (007)600 0358 www.mmsu.edu.ph
MARIANO MARCOS STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Engineering

First Electric Programmable Computer

 The Colossus was the first electric programmable computer and was developed by Tommy
Flowers and first demonstrated in December 1943. The Colossus was created to help the British
code breakers read encrypted German messages.

*Reconstruction of Colossus

ENIAC

COE Bldg. #16S Quiling Sur, City of Batac, Ilocos Norte


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College of Engineering

 Short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator, the ENIAC was the first electronic
computer used for general purposes, such as solving numerical problems. It was invented by J.
Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania in an effort to calculate
artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory.
 Its construction began in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. The ENIAC occupied about
1,800 square feet, used 17,468 vacuum tubes, 15,000 relays, weighed almost 50 tons, uses 200
Kilowatts of electricity, and cost about $500,000. Although it was not completed until the end of
the World War II, the ENIAC was created to help with the war effort against German forces

Von Neumann Architecture by John von Neumann

 The Von Neumann architecture —also known as the Von Neumann model or Princeton
architecture —is a computer architecture based on a 1945 description by Hungarian-American
mathematician and physicist John Von Neumann

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