The History Of Computers

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The History of Computers

The History of Computers

     A computer is a machine built to do routine calculations with speed,
reliability, and ease, greatly simplifying processes that without them would be
a much longer, more drawn out process.
     Since their introduction in the 1940's. Computers have become an
important part of the world.  Besides the systems found in offices, and homes,
microcomputers are now used in everyday locations such as automobiles, aircrafts,
telephones, and kitchen appliances.
     Computers are used for education as well, as stated by Rourke Guides in
his book, Computers: Computers are used in schools for scoring examination
papers, and grades are sometimes recorded and kept on computers (Guides 7).
     "The original idea of a computer came from Blaise Pascal, who invented
the first digital calculating machine in 1642.  It performed only additions of
numbers entered by dials and was intended to help Pascal's father, who was a tax
collector" (Buchsbaum 13).
     However, in 1671, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz invented a computer that
could not only add but, multiply.  Multiplication was quite a step to be taken
by a computer because until then, the only thing a computer could do was add.
The computer multiplied by successive adding and shifting (Guides 45).
     Perhaps the first actual computer was made by Charles Babbage.  He
explains himself rather well with the following quote:
     "One evening I was sitting in the rooms of the Analytical Society at
Cambridge with a table full of logarithms lying open before me...

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