History of computer

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is a programmable machine and an electronic device that manipulates information or data

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Computer

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It has the ability to store, retrieve and process data

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Computer

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manipulates data according to list of instructions

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computer

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aids human in performing various kinds of calculations and computations

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computer

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Employed to store and maintain accounts, manage projects and track inventory. They enable communication with people

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Business

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can be used to give audio-visual package, interactive exercises and tutoring over the internet.

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Education

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Computers makes it easier to store and access patient data. Can also be analyzed but software to aid discovery of diagnoses

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Healthcare

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Can be used to buy and sell products online. Enables sellers to reach a wider market and choose delivery preferences

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Retail and Trade

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used to improve the quality and efficiency of their services. includes city planning, law enforcement and tourism

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government

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They can be used to facilitate the creation of websites and promotional materials. It can be used to generate social media campaigns

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Marketing

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The first groups to adopt computer. Can be used for research, sharing information, collecting, analyzing and storing data

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Science

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can be used to design pretty much type of publication includes newsletter, newspaper, fashion magazines and novels

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Publishing

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can be used to create drawings, graphic designs and paintings as well as copy, edit and print photographs

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Arts and Entertainment

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software and videoconferencing services such as Skype to connect with audio and video

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Communication

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software and videoconferencing services such as Skype to connect with audio and video

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Communication

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you can use computers to check your account balance, transfer money or pay off credit cards

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Banking and Finance

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Used to maintain safety and navigation systems and increasingly to drive, fly or steer.

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Transport

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combined with GPS technology and satellite easier to pinpoint your exact location

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Navigation

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can access necessary data, communicate and share information without commuting

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Working from Home

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used for training purposes, analyzing intelligence data and control smart technology and track incoming missiles

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Military

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Enables people to chat in text or audio in real time across distances and exchange photographs

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Social and Romance

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Used by traveler’s to study timetables, examine route options and buy tickets

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Booking Vacations

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monitor people and goods. combined with biometric passports makes it harder for people to fraudulently enter a country

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Security and Surveillance

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computers can process the large amounts of meteorological information

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Weather Forecasting

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expanding area of technology combines computer with science and engineering can either replace humans

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Robotics

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when was the first use of the word “computer”

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1613

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Ancient memory aid device to record and document numbers, quantities and even messages

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Tally stick

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First invented in Babylonia in 2400 B.C and first used in China in 500 B.C

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Abacus

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a mechanical device used to aid an individual in performing basic arithmetic operations

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abacus

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invented by John napier in 1614

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Napier’s bones

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Allowed the operator to multiply, divide and calculate square and cube roots by moving the rods around

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Napier’s Bones

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invented by william oughtred in 1622

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Slide rule

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based on Napiers ideas. primarily used for multiplication, division, roots, logarithms and trigonometry

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Slide rule

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Invented by Blaise Pascal in 1643

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pascaline

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used for addition and subtraction, too expensive

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Pascaline

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invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1672

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Stepped Reckoner

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a machine that can do the four operations automatically

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stepped reckoner

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Mechanical loom controlled by punched cards

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Jacquard Loom

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Invented by Joseph-Marie Jacquard in 1881

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Jacquard Loom

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A mechanical calculator. The first reliable,useful and successful calculating machine. First mass-produced

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Arithmometer

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invented by Thomas de Colmar in 1820

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Arithmometer

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Invented by Charles Babbage in 1822 and 1834

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Difference Engine and Analytical Engine

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Mechanical Computer designed to tabulate polynomial functions

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Difference Engine and Analytical Engine

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Invented by Augusta Ada Byron in 1840

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First Computer Programmer

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She writes programs for the Analytical Engine

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Augusta Ada Byron

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invented by per georg scheutz in 1843

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Scheutzian Calculation Engine

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Based on Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine

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Scheutzian calculation engine

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the first printing calculator

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Scheutzian Calculation Engine

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Invented by Herman Hollerith in 189

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Tabulating Machine

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To assist in summarizing information and accounting

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Tabulating Machine

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invented by howard h. aiken in 1943

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harvard mark 1

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the first electromechanical computer

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Harvard Mark 1

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The first programmable computer

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Z1

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Invented by Komrad Zuse in Germany

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K1

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Punch tape

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Z1

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First electronic digital computing device

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Atanasoff-Berry Computer

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Invented by Prof John Atanasoff and student Clifford Berry

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Atanasoff-Berry Computer

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The first electronic general purpose computer

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ENIAC

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Developed by John Eckert and John Mauchly

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ENIAC

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first commercial computer

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UNIVAC 1

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The first stored program computer has a memory to hold both a stored program as well as data

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EDVAC

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Designed by Von Neumanm

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EDVAC

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the first portable computer

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osborne 1

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The first computer company founded by John Eckert and John Mauchly

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Electronic Controls Company

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The four basic computing periods

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Premechanical, Mechanical, Electromechanical and Electronic

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Earliest Age. Humans started to try language and simple picture drawings

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Premechanical

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Simple picture drawings are known as

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Petroglyphs

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paper was created out of

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papyrus plant

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1-9 system was created by

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Indian People

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____ years later that the number 0 was invented

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775 years

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A lot of technology are developed in this era

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Mechanical

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Beginning of telecommunications.

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Electromechanical

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Morse code was created by

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Samuel Morse

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Telephone was created by

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Alexander Graham Bell

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This age is what we currently live in

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Electronic

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Vacuum tubes

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First Generation

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Transistors

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Second Generation

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Integrated Circuit

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Third Generation

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Microprocessor

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Fourth Generation

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Artificial Intelligence

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Fifth Generation