BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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It is the first reliable, useful, and commercially successful calculating machine.
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ARITHMOMETER
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ANALYTICAL ENGINE
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PASCALINE COMPUTER
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NAPIER’S BONE
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Thomas’ arithmometer, the first commercially successful machine, was manufactured two hundred years later in 1851; it was the first mechanical calculator strong enough and reliable enough to be used daily in an office environment.
Detailed explanation-2: -A Brief History: The arithmometer was the first commercially successful calculating machine to complete all four basic operations-addition, subtraction, multiplication and division-according to IBM.
Detailed explanation-3: -abacus, plural abaci or abacuses, calculating device, probably of Babylonian origin, that was long important in commerce. It is the ancestor of the modern calculating machine and computer.
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