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Evolution of Computer

The document discusses the evolution of early computing devices from ancient abacuses through modern computers. It describes early mechanical calculating devices like the Pascaline and Leibniz's wheel, then covers early electronic computers like the Z1, Atanasoff-Berry Computer, and ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. It notes ENIAC was made of over 18,000 vacuum tubes and the UNIVAC as the first commercially available computer. The document traces the progression from mechanical to electronic digital computers and their increasing capabilities.

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Evolution of Computer

The document discusses the evolution of early computing devices from ancient abacuses through modern computers. It describes early mechanical calculating devices like the Pascaline and Leibniz's wheel, then covers early electronic computers like the Z1, Atanasoff-Berry Computer, and ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. It notes ENIAC was made of over 18,000 vacuum tubes and the UNIVAC as the first commercially available computer. The document traces the progression from mechanical to electronic digital computers and their increasing capabilities.

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evolution of

computers
origins of computing machine
Early Computing Devices

Earlier Abacus Modern Abacus

ABACUS
• It used to perform basic arithmetic operations.
• Invented in Babylonia in 2400 B.C.
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origins of computing machine
Gear-based Machines
Pascaline
• Invented by Blaise Pascal.
• It was its limitation to Pascaline
addition and subtraction.
Leibniz's Wheel or Step Reckoner
• Invented by Gottfried
Wilhelm Leibniz in 1672.
• The machine that can add,
subtract, multiply and divide
Leibniz's Wheel
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automatically.
Early data storage
Jacquard Loom

• The Jacquard loom is a mechanical


loom, invented by Joseph-Marie
Jacquard in 1881.
• It an automatic loom controlled
by punched cards.

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CHARLES BABBAGE
• December 26, 1791-
October 18, 1871
• English mathematician and
inventor
• Computer pioneer,
designed the first
automatic computing
engines

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Babbage's Difference Machine
(First Difference Engine)
composed of 25,000 parts,
weighed fifteen tons (13,600
kg), and stood 8 ft (2.4 m)
high.

calculates polynomial
functions

calculates and then prints


the results
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Augusta Ada Byron “Ada Lovelace”
December 10, 1815-
November 27, 1852

Augusta Ada King,


Countess of Lovelace
"First Computer Programmer"

written a description of
Charles Babbage's invention

Computer language Ada, created by


the U.S. Defense Department, was
named after her.
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EARLY COMPUTERS

• Z4 Computer- 1944 Whirlwind Computer- 1951


• German Eng. Ronrad Zuse • Jay Wright Forrester
• automatic computing
• first computer to use
machine
video displays for outputs
• addition took 0.4 sec
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First generation-vacuum tubes
• First developed by John
Ambrose Fleming
• Were used in early
computers as a switch or
an amplifier

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First generation-early
computers
• First electronic digital
computer built by Konrad
Zuse, who developed his
first machine, the Z1

• Used the binary system

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First generation-early
computers
• Atanasoff-Berry Computer
is considered the first
electronic digital computer
• Used vacuum tubes (over
300 vacuum tubes)
• Developed by Dr. John
Atanasoff and his
assistant Clifford Berry
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1946- ENIAC
• ENIAC stands for
Electronic Numerical
Integrator and Computer
• It was the first electronic
general purpose
computer
• Developed by John
Presper Eckert and John
W. Mauchly
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• 30 feet long, 8 feet
wide, and 8 feet
high
• 3 additions every
second
• made up of over
18,000 vacuum
tubes
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““It was the first
machine that
assisted the power
of man’s brain
instead of the
strength of his arm.”
- Grace Hopper

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did you know?
• ENIAC was used extensively for
calculations during the design of
the hydrogen bomb
• It had been used for research on the
design of wind tunnels, random
number generators, and weather
prediction
1951- UNIVAC
• UNIVAC stands for UNIVersal
Automatic Computer
• The world's first commercially
available computer
• Developed by John Presper
Eckert and John W. Mauchly
(designers of ENIAC)

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• Used to calculate company payrolls,
sales records, analysis of sales
performance and other company
business.
• 3,000 additions every second
• Became thousand times faster in
5 years
• Was used for computing with large
amounts of input and output.

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