HISTORY OF COMPUTER THE PRE-MECHANICAL AGE: 3000 B.C. – 1450 A.D. 1. Writing and Alphabets – Communication First development of signs corresponding to spoken sounds‚ instead of pictures‚ to express words. Around 2000 B.C.‚ Phoenicians created symbols that expressed single syllables and consonants (the first true alphabet) The Greeks later adopted the Phoenician alphabet and added vowels; the Romans gave the letters Latin names to create the alphabet we use today. 2. Paper
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History of Computers ENG 121 The volume and use of computers in the world are so great‚ they have become difficult to ignore anymore. Computers appear to us in so many ways that many times‚ we fail to see them as they actually are. People associated with a computer when they purchased their morning coffee at the vending machine. As they drove themselves to work‚ the traffic lights that so often hampered us are controlled by computers in an attempt to speed the journey. Accept it or not‚ the computer
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Brief History of Computers (A Look Back at Computing) Computers have become one of the most important parts of modern society. Nearly everything that is modern required or uses computer related technology in some way. But how did computers as we know them come to exist? Did someone sitting in his lab just one day say‚ "Aha! I’ve got it! The computer?! Well‚ no‚ that is not how this happened. Rather‚ many years of brilliant ideas and research from many different individuals contributed
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Picciano 9/13/14 History of the Computer Could you imagine life without computers? Not just computers but any smart device like your IPhone‚ IPad‚ Xbox etc. All of these devices are derived from the first unit known as the computer. Today’s society relies heavily on the computer and all of its functions. We essentially have the world at our fingertips whether it’s Googling anything you could possibly think of or plugging in an address and relying on a computer to get you there. If it wasn’t
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Roettger Computer Fundamentals for Technology February 23‚ 2014 The History of Personal Computers (Zimmermann) The personal computer in the beginning was not intended to be used for personal entertainment or for email‚ but was intended to be used for solving a number-crunching crisis. By 1880‚ the United States had grown so much that it took several years to calculate the United States census results. They were looking for a faster and more efficient way to get the results. The first computers were
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Identify and briefly explain three reasons why the New Christian Right might have failed to achieve its aims (9marks) The New Christian Right is a politically and morally conservative‚ protestant fundamentalist movement. The aims are extremely ambitious as they wish to make abortion‚ homosexuality and divorce illegal. They want to turn back to a time before liberalisation of American culture and society began. The New Christian Right may have failed to achieve its aims because the group lacked wide
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HISTORY OF COMPUTERS Historical records will tell us that man has invented three types of devices to assist him in calculating and processing data. These devices could be classified into: a) Manual-mechanical b) Electromechanical c) Electronic 2000 BC - MECHANICAL COMPUTER THE ABACUS * Computations are done by sliding beads on a wire arranged on a tray. Came from the Greek word abax meaning flat surface John Napier(1617) – Logs and Bones * a Scotsman‚ invented
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A. Identify and briefly explain three functions of religion (9 marks) Marxism believes it acts as the ‘opium for the exploited working class people’. Religion would cushion the pain of oppression and exploitation in unequal societies such as in a capitalist society. It legitimized and maintained the power of the ruling class – helps to maintain the status quo by preventing the less powerful from changing things. Feminists see religion as a conservative force because it acts as an ideology that legitimates
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The History of Computers Whether you know it or not you depend on computers for almost every thing you do in modern day life. From the second you get up in the morning to the second you go to sleep computer are tied into what you do and use in some way. It is tied in to you life in the most obvious and obscure ways. Take for example you wake up in the morning usually to a digital alarm clock. You start you car it uses computers the second you turn the key (General Motors is the largest buyers
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History of Computer Introduction Man’s progress is measured by sophistication of his tools. First‚ he discovered how to control fire. Eventually‚ he invented the wheel. He built boats and earned to harness the wind. As soon as commerce developed in the early societies‚ people recognized the need to calculate and keep track of information. They soon devised simple computing devices and bookkeeping systems to enable them to add‚ subtract‚ and simple record transactions. Today‚ we are witnessing
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