COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
EARLY COMPUTING DEVICES
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calculations
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computer stuff
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worked in a factory
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studied engineering
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Detailed explanation-1: -The term “computer", in use from the early 17th century (the first known written reference dates from 1613), meant “one who computes": a person performing mathematical calculations, before electronic computers became commercially available.
Detailed explanation-2: -The CPU. The central processing unit (CPU) is the brains of the computer, capable of controlling and performing mathematical calculations.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first calculator or adding machine to be produced in any quantity and actually used was the Pascaline, or Arithmetic Machine, designed and built by the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal between 1642 and 1644.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first computer The word dates back to 1613. “Computers” performed complex calculations; they were mathematicians and bookkeepers. The first-word “computer” was used to describe a machine was 1897.