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A 40 year retrospective.

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The first step.

* Signs of computers
have turned up for years. Some early devices include:

* Abacus * Punch card loom * Nopiers Rods

* CSIRAC * ENIAC * MK1 * Univac * These are some of the first

computers.

* These were very expensive and * Overheating, requiring a lot

were also prone to break down. electricity were a couple causes.

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The first Australian computer it ran 0.001 MHz and had 2kb ram. It was built in 1949 and used vacuum tubes. Like most 1st gen computing machines of that time period it had no operating system

* The use of transistors

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2nd gen had a few improvements over the first machines like

allowed them to be:

* Faster * Cheaper

* More reliable

* There are many

different computer languages including:

* Fortran * Binary * Basic * COBOL