Olden, Charles BSHM 2-A Assignment#1

Applied Business Tools & Technologies

What is Computer?
- a programmable electronic machine that performs high-speed mathematical or logical operations or that
assembles, stores, correlates, or otherwise processes information.
Who invented Computer?
- Charles Babbage, (born December 26, 1791, London, England - died October 18, 1871, London), English
mathematician and inventor who is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer.
- The first computer, the Antikythera mechanism (200 BC – 70 BC), was mechanical. Initially, computers
were people – it was a job title. The first computer was invented by Charles Babbage (1822) but was not built
until 1991! Alan Turing invented computer science. The ENIAC (1945) was the first electronic general-
purpose digital computer; it filled a room. The Micral N was the world’s first “personal computer” (1973). It
was not a commercial success. The Epson HX-20 (1981) was the world’s first laptop, although you wouldn’t
recognize it as a laptop today. The first Mac debuted in 1984.
What are the elements of Computer?
Hardware - Parts of a computer system, which we can see and touch, those computer part are called hardware.
Hardware are components such as keyboard, mouse, CPU, monitor, printer, scanner.
Software - Set of programs. Many computer programs combine to form a single software. In which the user
interacts with the computer system with the help of software. The programs of the computer that we can see but
cannot touch, that program is called software. There are various uses of software.
User - The person who uses the computer is called the user. Basically, the computer is used by a human, no
robot uses the computer. Therefore, the user is also an important element of the computer because without the
user the computer cannot do any operations.
Data – it’s also an important element of a computer system because the entire computer system is based on data
itself. Data is used everywhere on the computer. Just like a car cannot run without petrol, in the same way, a
computer cannot run without data.
What are the Generations of Computer?
Generations of computers Generations timeline Evolving hardware
First generation 1940s-1950s Vacuum tube based
Second generation 1950s-1960s Transistor based
Third generation 1960s-1970s Integrated circuit based
Fourth generation 1970s-present Microprocessor based
Fifth generation The present and the future Artificial intelligence based