Friday, November 28, 2014

HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

History of computers



I've been struggling to know the first computer that ever existed on earth..what is the first computer?? How it looked like? or is it a term that emerged from calculator?This is the question that haunts many computer students including me..
The answer to this question can be explained in different ways:But a simple answer is
Computer was actually a "job title" given to people,which is used to describe those human beings(predominantly women)whose job was to perform repetitive calculations in tide charts,navigation tables and planetary positions for astronomical almanacs.
Hour after hour and day after day if we were given such heinous tasks to perform calculations repetitively..what will happen?? The work will be "Boring" we become "Careless" and this leads to mistakes i.e., we provide "inaccurate" data and we don't get the results very fastly!! So investors have been searching for a way to mechanize this work!! That is the reason why computers have been invented..Earlier there used to be mechanical computers and later electronic computers have come into existence!!

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