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    NAME : CHARISSE C.

    INAANURAN SUBJECT: TIC 02


    YEAR & SECTION : BTVT ED-ELT 2

    HISTORY OF COMPUTER

    People used sticks, stones, and bones as counting tools before computers were invented. More computing
    devices were produced as technology advanced and the human intellect improved over time. Let us look at a
    few of the early-age computing devices used by mankind.

    It is said that Chinese invented Abacus around 4,000


    years ago.It was a wooden rack which has metal rods
    with beads mounted on them. The beads were moved ABACUS
    by the abacus operator according to some rules to
    perform arithmetic calculations. Abacus is still used in
    some countries like China, Russia and Japan.

    It was a manually-operated calculating device which


    was invented by John Napier (1550-1617) of
    Merchiston. In this calculating tool, he used 9
    different ivory strips or bones marked with numbers NAPIER’S BONES
    to multiply and divide. So, the tool became known
    as "Napier's Bones.

    Pascaline is also known as Arithmetic Machine or


    Adding Machine. It was invented between 1642 and
    1644 by a French mathematician-philosopher Biaise PASCALINE
    Pascal. It is believed that it was the first mechanical
    and automatic calculator.

    It was developed by a German mathematician-


    philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz in 1673. He
    improved Pascal's invention to develop this machine. It STEPPED RECKONER
    was a digital mechanical calculator which was called the
    stepped reckoner as instead of gears it was made of
    fluted drums.

    In the early 1820s, it was designed by Charles


    Babbage who is known as "Father of Modern
    Computer". It was a mechanical computer which DIFFERENCE
    could perform simple calculations. It was a steam ENGINE
    driven calculating machine designed to solve tables
    of numbers like logarithm tables.
    NAME : CHARISSE C. INAANURAN SUBJECT: TIC 02
    YEAR & SECTION : BTVT ED-ELT 2

    This calculating machine was also developed by


    Charles Babbage in 1830. It was a mechanical
    computer that used punch-cards as input. It was
    capable of solving any mathematical problem and ANALYTICAL
    storing information as a permanent memory.
    ENGINE

    It was invented in 1890, by Herman Hollerith, an


    American statistician. It was a mechanical tabulator
    based on punch cards. It could tabulate statistics and
    TABULATING
    record or sort data or information. This machine
    was used in the 1890 U.S. Census. MACHINE

    It was the first electronic computer introduced in the


    United States in 1930. It was an analog device
    invented by Vannevar Bush. This machine has
    vacuum tubes to switch electrical signals to perform DIFFERENTIAL
    calculations. It could do 25 calculations in few
    minutes. ANALYZER

    The next major changes in the history of computer


    began in 1937 when Howard Aiken planned to
    develop a machine that could perform calculations
    involving large numbers. In 1944, Mark I computer
    MARK 1
    was built as a partnership between IBM and
    Harvard. It was the first programmable digital
    computer.
    NAME : CHARISSE C. INAANURAN SUBJECT: TIC 02
    YEAR & SECTION : BTVT ED-ELT 2

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