The History of Computers A computer is a machine built to do routine calculations with speed‚ reliability‚ and ease‚ greatly simplifying processes that without them would be a much longer‚ more drawn out process. Since their introduction in the 1940’s. Computers have become an important part of the world. Besides the systems found in offices‚ and homes‚ microcomputers are now used in everyday locations such as automobiles‚ aircrafts‚ telephones‚ and kitchen appliances. Computers are used for
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CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 AN OVERVIEW OF E-PAYMENT AS A METHOD. E-payment is a subset of an e-commerce transaction to include electronic payment for buying and selling goods or services offered through the internet. Generally we think of electronic payments as referring to online transactions on the internet‚ there are actually many forms of electronic payments. As technology is developing‚ the range of devices and processes to transact electronically continues to increase while the percentage
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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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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 COMPUTERS Ancient era Suanpan (the number represented on this abacus is 6‚302‚715‚408) Devices have been used to aid computation for thousands of years‚ mostly using one-to-one correspondence with fingers. The earliest counting device was probably a form of tally stick. Later record keeping aids throughout the Fertile Crescent included calculi (clay spheres‚ cones‚ etc.) which represented counts of items‚ probably livestock or grains‚ sealed in hollow unbaked clay containers.[1][2]
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role‚ the media and individual journalists experienced all forms of vicissitudes and punishment by the colonial authorities. The origins of the media however predated the nationalist struggle for independence. Without recourse to a repeat of long history here‚ we acknowledge the fact that the Nigerian press is a product of evolution from the early Christian missionary establishment in the South of the country. Between 1842 and 1885‚ the Church Missionary Society‚ the Baptist‚ Methodist and the Catholic
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Electronic Surveillance in a Digital Age July 1995 OTA-BP-ITC-149 GPO stock #052-003-01418-1 Recommended Citation: U.S. Congress‚ Office of Technology Assessment‚ Electronic Surveillance in a Digital Age‚ OTA-BP-ITC-149 (Washington‚ DC: U.S. Government Printing Office‚ July 1995). ii oreword awlessness and terrorism present new challenges to our society as the 21st Century approaches. Electronic surveillance is an invaluable tool in America’s arsenal to fight crime in this era of high-speed
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History of Computing Hardware Computing hardware evolved from machines that needed separate manual action to perform each arithmetic operation‚ to punched card machines‚ and then to stored-program computers. The history of stored-program computers relates first to computer architecture‚ that is‚ the organization of the units to perform input and output‚ to store data and to operate as an integrated mechanism. Before the development of the general-purpose computer‚ most calculations were done
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There is no noun with the ability to represent modern life other than computer. Whether the effect is negative or positive‚ computers control nearly every aspect of our everyday life. Computers have evolved from bearing the role of strictly computing to having the ability of completing unthinkable tasks. Supermarket scanners calculate our grocery bill while keeping store inventory; computerized telephone switching centers play traffic cop to millions of calls and keep lines of communication untangled;
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between Washington and New York Philo Farnsworth invents fully electronic TV (First all electronic TV is made by RCA in 1932) Motion picture film standardized at 24 fps Hollerith introduces the 80-column "punch card" BBC begins broadcasting 1930 1931 1936 1938 1939 1941 1941 1945 1946 1948 1947 1949 1949 Philo Farnsworth receives patents for transmitting images by electronic means 1st stereo recordings the Magnetophone is 1st true magnetic
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