Computers

Computers

The Computer has been changed, and changed throughout history, but it has still

done what everyone wanted it to do. This is what people say to be the best invention ever

produced. The history of computers starts about 2000 years ago, at the beginning of time.

It used a wooden rack holding two horizontal wires with beads strung on them. When

these beads are moved around they are used to figure out simple mathematics. “Blaise

Pascal is usually credited for the building the first digital computer in 1642.” ( Short

History of the Computer 2). He built this to make it easier for his father to be a tax

collector. It added numbers together for simple math so that he wouldn’t have to spend

quite as much time as doing it by hand.

In 1812, Chambridge, England was making vast developments in the computer

age”(The History of Invention 302). He realized that many long calculations, especially

those needed to make mathematical tables. He began to design an automatic mechanical

calculating machine, which he called a difference engine. The design was intended to be

a steam powered, and fully automatic, including the printing of the resulting tables, and

commanded by a fixed instruction program.

The main purpose for the computer was to show that people could do things that

normally would take longer. They can now do the things fast, and more affordable in the

long run. This saved much time for tax returns, and adding your monthly bills, or other

projects that need help in adding.


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Now with the invention put into use in the world it made everyone life a lot

easier. In the beginning they could only do mostly simple mathematics, but as time has

evolved you can now type up reports, or play games on them, even talk, and your

computer will type for you. When they first invented computes I doubt they thought of all

these possibilities could be possible.

“The first digital...