FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -Games played on three-in-a-row boards can be traced back to ancient Egypt, where such game boards have been found on roofing tiles dating from around 1300 BC. An early variation of tic-tac-toe was played in the Roman Empire, around the first century BC.

Detailed explanation-2: -IBM introduced the IBM 701 May 21, 1952, the company’s first production computer and a watershed in the computing industry. Designed primarily for scientific calculations, the 701 features the IBM-invented tape drive vacuum column, an innovation which paved the way for magnetic tape.

Detailed explanation-3: -Alexander Douglas was a Cambridge University PhD candidate when he designed one of the earliest computer games, a version of Tic-Tac-Toe (known in Britain as ‘Naughts and Crosses’), called OXO. Played on Cambridge’s EDSAC computer, OXO allowed a player to choose to start or to allow the machine to make the first move.

Detailed explanation-4: -Then, in 1952, A.S. Douglas at the University of Cambridge created an electronic version of Tic-Tac-Toe, which he titled “OXO” (or Noughts and Crosses).