By: Melanie Guenard

Computers ancestors
Some, of the many first ancestors of the
computer were:
The abacus
The antikythera
The side rule
The tabulating machine
Etc

Early computers
Mark 1
Univac
Anyac
Early computers broke down often
because they produced so much heat
and used vacuum tubes.
These computers were used
for counting.
Earlier computer languages:
Cobal
Fortran
Basic
Australia's first computers had an
operating speed of 2kbytes RAM
(.001mhz)
2
nd
and 3
rd
Generation Computers
2
nd
generation computers were PDP-1 etc... and the technological
advanced allowed:
Transistors
Smarter more efficient
Programming languages
3
rd
generation computers were IBM 360 and the technological
advanced allowed:
Silicon chips
Smaller
Faster
The basic task that a computer performs
The basic task that a computer preforms are:

Defining information
Storing info
Social media
Accounting
Busyness
Finding info
Fun/Games
Etc
Computers are used for many things. They were first invented for
counting but as we can all see they have expanded way more in the
various things than can do.
Computers in Schools
Computers are used all the time and are essentials in
everyday school days in 2014. They are used for
communication, to control the temperature and learning
tools. A lot of the work is to be done on a computer and is
assigned on it too. We also need computers for research on
projects.
What computer are like today

Currently, computers are used for business and
home uses, social networks, media and research.
We also now have convergence and multimedia.
Convergence is videos and stuff like that and
multimedia is videos, pictures, sounds and animation.
P.C. (Personal Computer)
The first large scale production personal computer was Apple 2.
P.C. Stands for personal computer and was invented by Bill Gates
and IBM.
P.C. Users Gained accesses to the world wide web in the mid
90s
VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet computer programme it was really
important because it allowed people to do busyness on there computer.