| The early computers
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| | were all too aware of this obvious
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| | problem and they developed "stored
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| The history of computer dates back a lot
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| | program architecture".John von Neumann,
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| longer than the 1900s, in fact computers
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| | (a consultant to the ENIAC), Mauchly and
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| have been around for over 5000 years.In
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| | his team developed EDVAC, this new
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| ancient time a "computer", (or
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| | project used stored program.Eckert and
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| "computor") was a person who performed
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| | Mauchly later developed what was arguably
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| numerical calculations under the
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| | the first commercially successful
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| direction of a mathematician.Some of the
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| | computer, the UNIVAC.Software technology
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| better known devices used are the Abacus
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| | during this period was very primitive.
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| or the Antikythera mechanism.Around 1725
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| | The first programs were written out in
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| Basile Bouchon used perforated paper in a
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| | machine code. By the 1950s programmers
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| loom to establish the pattern to be
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| | were using a symbolic notation, known as
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| reproduced on cloth. This ensured that
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| | assembly language, then hand-translating
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| the pattern was always the same and
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| | the symbolic notation into machine code.
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| hardly had any human errors.Later, in
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| | Later programs known as assemblers
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| 1801, Joseph Jacquard (1752 - 1834), used
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| | performed the translation task.The
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| the punch card idea to automate more
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| | Transistor era, the end of the inventor.
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| devices with great success.The First
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| computers?
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| | Late 1950 saw the end of valve driven
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| | computers. Transistor based computers
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| Charles Babbage's. (1792-1871), was
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| | were used because they were smaller,
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| ahead of his time, and using the punch
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| | cheaper, faster and a lot more
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| card idea he developed the first
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| | reliable.Corporations, rather than
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| computing devices that would be used for
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| | inventors, were now producing the new
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| scientific purposes. He invented the
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| | computers.Some of the better known ones
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| Charles Babbage's Difference Engine,
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| | are:
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| which he begun in 1823 but never
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| | TRADIC at Bell Laboratories in 1954,
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| completed. Later he started work on the
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| | TX-0 at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory
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| Analytical Engine, it was designed in
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| | IBM 704 and its successors, the 709 and
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| 1842.Babbage was also credited with
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| | 7094. The latter introduced I/O
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| inventing computing concepts such as
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| | processors for better throughput between
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| conditional branches, iterative loops and
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| | I/O devices and main memory
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| index variables.Ada Lovelace (1815-1852),
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| | First supper computers, The Livermore
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| was a colleague of Babbage and founder of
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| | Atomic Research Computer (LARC) and the
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| scientific computing.Many people improved
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| | IBM 7030 (aka Stretch)
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| on the Babbage inventions, George Scheutz
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| | The Texas Instrument Advanced Scientific
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| along with his son, Edvard Scheutz, began
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| | Computer (TI-ASC)
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| work on a smaller version and by 1853
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| | Now the basis of computers was in place,
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| they had constructed a machine that could
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| | with transistors the computers were
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| process 15-digit numbers and calculate
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| | faster and with Stored program
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| fourth-order differences.On of the first
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| | architecture you could use the computer
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| notable commercial use, (and success), of
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| | for almost anything.New high level
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| computers was the US Census Bureau, which
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| | programs soon arrived, FORTRAN (1956),
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| used punch-card equipment designed by
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| | ALGOL (1958), and COBOL (1959), Cambridge
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| Herman Hollerith to tabulate data for the
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| | and the University of London cooperated
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| 1890 census.To compensate for the
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| | in the development of CPL (Combined
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| cyclical nature of the Census Bureau's
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| | Programming Language, 1963). Martin
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| demand for his machines, Hollerith
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| | Richards of Cambridge developed a subset
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| founded the Tabulating Machine Company
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| | of CPL called BCPL (Basic Computer
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| (1896), which was one of three companies
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| | Programming Language, 1967).In 1969, the
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| that merged to form IBM in 1911.Later,
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| | CDC 7600 was released, it could perform
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| Claude Shannon (1916- 2001) first
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| | 10 million floating point operations per
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| suggested the use of digital electronics
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| | second (10 Mflops).The network years.
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| in computers and in 1937 and
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| J.V.Atanasoff built the first electronic
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| | From 1985 onward the race was on to put
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| computer that could solve 29 simultaneous
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| | as many transistors as possible on one
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| equations with 29 unknowns. But this
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| | computer. Each one of them could do a
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| device was not programmableDuring those
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| | simple operation. But apart from been
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| trouble times, computers evolved at a
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| | faster and been able to perform more
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| rapid rate. But because of restrictions
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| | operations the computer has not evolved
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| many projects remained secret until much
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| | much.The concept of parallel processing
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| later and notable example is the British
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| | is more widely used from the 1990s.In the
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| military "Colossus" developed in 1943 by
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| | area of computer networking, both wide
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| Alan Turing and his team.In the late 1940
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| | area network (WAN) and local area network
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| the US army commissioned John V. Mauchly
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| | (LAN) technology developed at a rapid
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| to develop a device to compute ballistics
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| | pace
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| during World War II. As it turned out the
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| | Get a more detailed history of
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| machine was only ready in 1945, but the
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| | computer.Ever wanted to learn more about
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| Electronic Numerical Integrator and
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| | your computer? gives you information
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| Computer, or ENIAC, proved to be a
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| | from the history of computer to what
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| turning point in computer history.ENIAC
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| | computer memory to get. Computer software
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| proved to be a very efficient machine but
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| | as well as everything you need to know
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| not a very easy one to operate. Any
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| | about computer hardware. All in simple
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| changes would sometime require the device
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| | terms for the non-technical amongst us.
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| itself to be re-programmed. The engineers
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