History Of Computers

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binary to
decimal to make it readable to the user.

One of the first computers was called ENIAC. It was a huge, monstrous
size nearly that of a standard railroad car. It contained electronic tubes,
heavy gauge wiring, angle-iron, and knife switches just to name a few of the
components. It has become difficult to believe that computers have evolved into
suitcase sized micro-computers of the 1990's.

Computers eventually evolved into less archaic looking devices near the
end of the 1960's. Their size had been reduced to that of a small automobile and
they were processing segments of information at faster rates than older models.
Most computers at this time were termed "mainframes" due to the fact that many
computers were linked together to perform a given function. The primary user of
these types of computers were military agencies and large corporations such as
Bell, AT&T, General Electric, and Boeing. Organizations such as these had the
funds to afford such technologies. ...

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it at
a usable and efficient level. Children are being taught basic computer skills in
the classroom in order to prepare them for the future evolution of the computer
age.

The history of computers started out about 2000 years ago, at the birth
of the abacus, a wooden rack holding two horizontal wires with beads strung on
them. When these beads are moved around, according to programming rules
memorized by the user, all regular arithmetic problems can be done. Another
important invention around the same time was the Astrolabe, used for navigation.

Blaise Pascal is usually credited for building the first digital computer
in 1642. It added numbers entered with dials and was made to ...

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