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Is a programmable machine

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Computer

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Is an electronic device that manipulates information and data

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Computer

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It was an ancient memory aid device

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Tally sticks

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a mechanical device used to aid an individual in performing mathematical
calculations.

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Abacus

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was invented in Babylonia in 2400 B.C.

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Abacus

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It used to perform basic arithmetic operation

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Abacus

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Invented by John Napier in 1614.

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Napier’s bones

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Invented by William Oughtred in 1622.

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Slide rule

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Invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642.

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Pascaline

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Invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1672.

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Stepped reckoner

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is a mechanical loom, invented by Joseph-Marie Jacquard in 1881

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Jacquard loom

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A mechanical calculator invented by Thomas de Colmar in 1820,

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Arithmometer

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The first reliable, useful and commercially successful calculating machine.

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Arithmometer

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14
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She writes programs for the Analytical Engine

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Augusta ada byron

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Invented by Per Georg Scheutz in 1843

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Scheutzian Calculation Engine

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16
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The first printing calculator

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Scheutzian calculation engine

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Invented by Herman Hollerith in 1890.

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Tabulating machine

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18
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To assist in summarizing information and accounting

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Tabulating machine

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19
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Also known as IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC).

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Harvard mark 1

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Invented by Howard H. Aiken in 1943

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Harvard mark 1

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The first electro-mechanical computer

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Harvard mark 1

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The first programmable computer

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Created by Konrad Zuse in Germany from 1936 to 1938

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It was the first electronic digital computing device.

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Atanasoff-berry computer (abc)

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Invented by Professor John Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry
Atanasoff-berry computer (abc)
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ENIAC stands for?
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
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It was the first electronic general-purpose computer.
ENIAC
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Developed by John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly
ENIAC
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was the first commercial computer.
UNIVAC 1 (UNIVersal Automatic Computer 1)
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Designed by John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly
UNIVAC 1 (UNIVersal Automatic Computer 1)
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EDVAC stands for?
Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
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The First Stored Program Computer
EDVAC
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Designed by Von Neumann in 1952.
EDVAC
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It has a memory to hold both a stored program as well as data.
EDVAC
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the first portable computer
Osborne 1
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Released in 1981 by the Osborne Computer Corporation
The first portable computer
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The first computer company
Electronic controls company
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Founded in 1949 by John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly
The first computer company (Electronic controls company)
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the earliest age of information technology
Premechanical age
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It can be defined as the time between 3000B.C. and 1450A.D
Premechanical age
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can be defined as the time between 1450 and 1840
Mechanical age
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is when we first start to see connections between our current technology and its ancestors
Mechanical age
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can be defined as the time between 1840 and 1940.
Electromechanical age
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was the first high-speed
ENIAC
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what we currently live in.
Electronic age
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first computers used vacuum tubes
First generation
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Transistors replaced vacuum tubes
Second generation
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The development of the integrated circuit
The third generation
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The microprocessor brought
Fourth generation

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