Concept Of Computers

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Submitted by rocker93 on December 20, 2007

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Concept Of Computers

Computer System Concept
Originally, the term "computer" referred to a person who performed numerical calculations (a human computer), often with the aid of a mechanical calculating device.Computer systems can be divided into two types, mechanical and modern computer systems.

The mechanical era

The first mechanical computer which was a calculator was developed by Wilhelm Schickhard in 1623, after that a series of calculators were built. However, none of those devices fit the modern definition of a computer because they could not be programmed. In 1837, Charles Babbage was the first to conceptualize and design a fully programmable mechanical computer...

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