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The document outlines the history of computing devices from ancient tools like the tally stick and abacus to modern inventions such as the Osborne 1 portable computer. It highlights key inventions, their inventors, and their significance in the evolution of computing technology. Notable figures mentioned include Charles Babbage, Augusta Ada Byron, and John Presper Eckert.

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Alvez - Exercise No.3

The document outlines the history of computing devices from ancient tools like the tally stick and abacus to modern inventions such as the Osborne 1 portable computer. It highlights key inventions, their inventors, and their significance in the evolution of computing technology. Notable figures mentioned include Charles Babbage, Augusta Ada Byron, and John Presper Eckert.

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ALVEZ, MARY LOUISE E.

BAEL 3
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Exercise No. 3: Living in the IT Era

1. Tally stick was an ancient memory aid device to record and


document numbers, quantities or even messages

2. Abacus
is a mathematical device used to aid an individual in performing mathematical
calculations. The abacus was invented in Babylonia in 2400 B.C. the Abacus
in the form we are most familiar with was first used in China in around 500
B.C and is used to perform basic arithmetic operations.

3. Napier’s
Bones was invented by John Napier in 1614. This allowed the operator to
multiply, divide and calculate square roots by moving the rods around and
placing them in specially constructed board.

4. Slide Rule was invented by William Oughtred in 1622 based on


Napier’s idea about logarithms It is used primarily for: Multiplication, Division,
Roots, Logarithm, Trigonometry. It is not normally used for addition or
subtraction.

5. Pascaline was invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642. It was its limitation


to addition and subtraction and is too expensive

6. Stepped Reckoner invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1672. The


machine that can add, subtract, multiply and divide automatically.

7. Jacquard Loom is a mechanical loom which was invented by Joseph


Marie Jacquard in 1881, It is as automatic loom controlled by punched cards.

8. Arithmometer is a mechanical calculator invented by Thomas de


Colmar in 1820 This was the first reliable, useful and commercially successful
calculating machines It could perform the four basic mathematic functions and
it is the first mass-produced calculating machine

9. Difference Engine and Analytical Engine were both automatic,


mechanical calculator that is designed to tabulate polynomial functions and
was invented by Charles Babbage who also is the father of the computer in
1822 and 1834. This is the first mechanical computer.

10. Augusta Ada Byron


This is the first mechanical computer first programmer was known in 1840
named as Augusta Ada Byron who suggests to Babbage to use the Binary
System. She writes programs for the Analytical Engine.

11. Scheutzian Calculation Engine was invented by Per Georg Scheutz


in 1843. This was based from Charles Babbage’s difference engine. This was
first printing calculator.
12. Tabulating Machine was invented by Herman Hollerith in 1890 which
is utilized to assist in summarizing information and accounting.

13. Harvard Mark 1 or otherwise known as IBM Automatic Sequence


Controlled Calculator (ASCC) was invented by Howard H. Aiken in 1943 and
was known as the first electromechanical computer.

14. Z1 is the first programmable computer that was created by Konrad


zuse in Germany from 1936 to 1938. In order to program the Z1, the user is
required that the user inserts punch tape into the reader and all output is
generated then.

15. Atanasoff
Berry Computer was the first electronic digital computing device that was
invented by Professor John Atanasoff who was a Graduate student in Clifford
Berry at Iowa State University between 1939 and 1942.
16. ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. This was
the first electronic general purpose, computer that was completed in 1946.
This was also developed by John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly.

17. UNIVAC 1
(Universal Automatic Computer1) was the first commercial computer that was
designed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly.

18. Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer was the first


stored program computer that was designed by Von Neumann in 1952 and it
has a memory to hold both a stored program as well as data.

19. Osborne 1 is the first portable computer that was released in 1981 by
the Osborne Computer Corporation.
20. First Computer Company
First Computer Company was the Electronic Controls Company which was
founded in 1949 by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly.

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