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Electro-Mechanical Computers were used before first generation of computers.
The first commercial computer in the UK (the Eliot 152) was delivered in 1950.
Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) was a French inventor who developed a system of punched cards used to program the operation of mechanical equipment. First used for the operation of mechanical looms in the textile industry, the punched cards became the prototype for the first mechanical computers.
roughly 1890 through 1960, it overlaps first and second generation electronic computers with some equipment still in use in the 1970s assisting third generation electronic computers for offline functions.
The zeroth generation of computers started in 1642 - 1946. It started with the invention of pascaline by Blaise Pascal, then in 1822, Charles Babbage invented Difference Engine to compute tables for naval navigation. Then came the Tabulating machine by Herman Hollerith in 1880 for counting US census which was followed by invention of Mark I and II by Howard Eiken in 1944, which was the first US general purpose electro-mechanical computer.
Electro-Mechanical Computers were used before first generation of computers.
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When the first humans made ​​their first tools.
The first computers were known when they started to make human life more easier
1943 for companies, 1957 for individuals
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In 1848 John Curtis of Maine started producing the first commercial spruce gum
Jennifer Terran sings it on the Dell commercial, however Doris Day first sang it. Que Sera Sera
The first commercial computer in the UK (the Eliot 152) was delivered in 1950.
Charles Babbage is considered the father of the computer. He created the first mechanical prototype in the early 19th century.
Z1, it was mechanical (including memory), but it did floating point arithmetic. Electronic computers were later.
Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) was a French inventor who developed a system of punched cards used to program the operation of mechanical equipment. First used for the operation of mechanical looms in the textile industry, the punched cards became the prototype for the first mechanical computers.