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    1) People used sticks, stones, and the abacus to perform early calculations and keep track of things before computers were invented. 2) Important early mechanical calculating devices included Napier's Bones, the Pascaline, and the Step Reckoner. 3) Charles Babbage invented the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, important early general-purpose mechanical computers. 4) ENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer and UNIVAC was the first commercial computer produced in the US. Microcomputers became popular in the 1980s and computers continue to get smaller and more powerful.

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    1) People used sticks, stones, and the abacus to perform early calculations and keep track of things before computers were invented. 2) Important early mechanical calculating devices included Napier's Bones, the Pascaline, and the Step Reckoner. 3) Charles Babbage invented the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, important early general-purpose mechanical computers. 4) ENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer and UNIVAC was the first commercial computer produced in the US. Microcomputers became popular in the 1980s and computers continue to get smaller and more powerful.

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    Computer Fundamentals

    CSE 111
    (Computer history)
    HISTORY
    of
    COMPUTERS

    08/08/2020
    STICKS & STONES

    People in early times used


    their fingers and made marks on
    cave walls to help themselves
    remember and count. They used
    STICKS and STONES to keep
    track of things.
    ABACUS - 3000 BC

    A counting machine called “ABACUS” , was used by people in


    China, Greece, and Middle East to calculate. Beads were
    moved back and forth along parallel rods to add and subtract
    large numbers.
    JOHN NAPIER
    1550 - 1617

    - Scottish landowner known as


    a mathematician, physicist,
    astronomer and astrologer.

    - invented Napier’s Bones.


    NAPIER’S BONES - 1617

    Napiers Invention was used to multiply and divide


    numbers. It was the first machine to use the decimal point.
    BLAISE PASCAL
    1623 - 1662

    - French Mathematician , physicist, inventor,


    writer and catholic philosopher.

    - invented the pascaline


    PASCALINE - 1642

    Pascal developed a calculator called the "Arithmatique" or


    "Pascaline." Pascal's device used a series of toothed wheels, which were
    turned by hand and which could handle numbers up to 999,999.999.
    Pascal's device was also called the "numerical wheel calculator" and was
    one of the world's first mechanical adding machines.
    GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNITZ
    1646-1716

    - German mathematician and philosopher

    - improved Pascal’s invention

    - invented the First Calculator called the Step


    Reckoner (or Stepped Reckoner) was a digital
    mechanical calculator or called now the Leibnetz
    wheel
    STEP RECKONER OR LEIBNITZ WHEEL 1672 -
    1694

    Step Reckoner or Leibnitz wheel was a digital mechanical


    calculator around 1672 and completed in 1694. It was the first
    calculator that could perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and
    division.
    CHARLES BABBAGE
    1791-1871

    • English inventor

    • taught math at Cambridge University

    • invented a viable mechanical


    computer equivalent to modern
    digital computers called the
    difference and analytical engine

    • Called the Father of modern


    computer
    DIFFERENCE ENGINE - 1833

    - Babbage first computer

    - a mechanical device that could perform


    simple mathematical calculations.

    - automatic, mechanical calculator designed to


    tabulate polynomial functions.
    ANALYTICAL ENGINE - 1834
    - Babbage ‘s second
    computer
    - used binary system
    - punched cards as input
    - intended to combine its
    numerical qualities as
    though they were letters
    or other symbols.
    AUGUST ADA BYRON KING

    1815-1852

    - Created a program for the (theoretical)


    Babbage analytical engine which would have
    calculated Bernoulli numbers.

    -Widely recognized as the first programmer.


    ENIAC – 1946
    Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer

    - World’s first digital


    computer
    - Massive machine was
    world’s first large-scale
    electronic general-
    purpose digital computer
    - Filled entire room &
    calculate in two hours
    UNIVAC – 1951
    Universal Automatic Computer

    - was the first


    commercial
    computer produced
    in the United States
    MICROCOMPUTER – 1981

    - IBM introduced the 1st


    personal computer

    - The smallest type of


    computer designed for a
    single user
    Computers Today
    - Computers getting
    smaller and more
    powerful.

    - Computers that are so


    tiny to fit in your hand

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