COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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UNIVAC
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Abacus
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Jacquard Loom
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Slide Rule
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Detailed explanation-1: -ABACUS (3003 BC) Upper Beads • The abacus was invented in 3000 BC in Babylonia. Deck Beam • It consists of beads on rods to count and calculate. Rods Lower • It is still widely used in Asia.
Detailed explanation-2: -The earliest known calculating device is probably the abacus. It dates back at least to 1100 bce and is still in use today, particularly in Asia. Now, as then, it typically consists of a rectangular frame with thin parallel rods strung with beads.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pascaline, also called Arithmetic Machine, the first calculator or adding machine to be produced in any quantity and actually used. The Pascaline was designed and built by the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal between 1642 and 1644.
Detailed explanation-4: -While not technically a computer, the abacus is known as the first calculating tool. It’s also one of the first inventions that led to the first computer, credited to Charles Babbage in 1822.