BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Simon Konrad
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Charles Babbage
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John Lovelace
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William Howard
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Detailed explanation-1: -English mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer. During the mid-1830s Babbage developed plans for the Analytical Engine. Although it was never completed, the Analytical Engine would have had most of the basic elements of the present-day computer.
Detailed explanation-2: -Charles Babbage (1791-1871), computer pioneer, designed two classes of engine, Difference Engines, and Analytical Engines.
Detailed explanation-3: -Analytical Engine, generally considered the first computer, designed and partly built by the English inventor Charles Babbage in the 19th century (he worked on it until his death in 1871).
Detailed explanation-4: -The Analytical Engine was a general-purpose, completely program-controlled, mechanical digital computer with no human intervention. The store intended to be large enough to contain 1, 000 50-digit numbers, which was more than any computer constructed before 1960 could store.