Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Early Computers

  • The earliest computer is the abacus, which is still in use today. In 1642, Blaise Pascal invented a manual calculator with numbers that rolled over like an odometer. The first concept like a modern computer was the analytical engine designed in 1834. Charles Babbage designed it to use punch cards. The analytical engine wasn't completed, but it was the basis of modern computers.

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