EVOLUTION OF COMPUTING DEVICES

EARLIEST COMPUTING
DEVICES
 ABACUS

•Developed by Chinese
•About 3000 BC
•Beads that slides through rods
 PASCALINE
 Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician, invented
the Pascaline between 1642 and 1644
 The Pascaline could only add and subtract
numbers
 STEPPED RECONER

 Invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Liebnitz, a

German mathematician in 1671
 The first Mechanical Machine invented

 This machine can add, subtract, divide, multiply

and even get the square root of a number
 JACQUARDS LOOM
 Invented by Joseph Jacquard a silk weaver in
1801
 The first machine to use punch card

 His punched card system was adopted in the

20th-century as a control and data input system
for many office machines and early digital
computers.
TABULATING MACHINE
 Invented by Herman Hollerith sometime in 1890
 The machine treats information in the form of
holes punched through a strip of paper.
 His tabulating machine pave way for the
International Business Machine of today.