History Of Computers
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The volume and use of computers in the world are so great, they have
become difficult to ignore anymore. Computers appear to us in so many ways that
many times, we fail to see them as they actually are. People associated with a
computer when they purchased their morning coffee at the vendin ....
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.... lamps. Binary denotes using only ones and zeros thus, lit lamps
represented ones and unlit lamps represented zeros. The irony of this is that
people needed to perform another mathematical function to translate 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
compo ....
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