COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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One of the first computers was an abacus. Invented in Babylon in 500 B.C., the abacus was made of string and beads.
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -It was said to be invented from ancient Babylon in between 300 to 500 bc. Abacus was the first counting machine. Earlier it was fingers, stones, or any various kinds of natural material. It was widely in use in different countries from the Middle East to Japan, China, Russia as well as Europe.
Detailed explanation-2: -Triumph of the Nerds: A History of the Computer. The abacus, a simple counting aid, may have been invented in Babylonia (now Iraq) in the fourth century B.C.
Detailed explanation-3: -The earliest archaeological evidence for the use of the Greek abacus dates to the 5th century BC. Demosthenes (384 BC–322 BC) complained that the need to use pebbles for calculations was too difficult.
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