COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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An input device
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An output device
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A processor
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All of the above.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Charles Babbage, an English mechanical engineer and polymath, originated the concept of a programmable computer. Considered the “father of the computer", he conceptualized and invented the first mechanical computer in the early 19th century.
Detailed explanation-2: -From 1939 to 1944 Aiken, in collaboration with IBM, developed his first fully functional computer, known as the Harvard Mark I. The machine, like Babbage’s, was huge: more than 50 feet (15 metres) long, weighing five tons, and consisting of about 750, 000 separate parts, it was mostly mechanical.
Detailed explanation-3: -ENIAC, in full Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, built during World War II by the United States.