BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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The Pascaline
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The Leibnitz calculator
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The tabulating machine
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The analytical engine
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Detailed explanation-1: -The stepped reckoner or Leibniz calculator was a mechanical calculator invented by the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz around 1672 and completed in 1694. The name comes from the translation of the German term for its operating mechanism, Staffelwalze, meaning “stepped drum".
Detailed explanation-2: -Leibniz Calculating MachineIn 1671 Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716) invented a calculating machine which was a major advance in mechanical calculating.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1671 the German mathematician-philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz designed a calculating machine called the Step Reckoner. (It was first built in 1673.) The Step Reckoner expanded on Pascal’s ideas and did multiplication by repeated addition and shifting.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.