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Where is computer history stored?

Internet history is stored in a hidden directory on the computer. It is stored at the following path C:\Documents and Settings\YOURUSERNAME\Local Settings\History.

When did lady Augusta Ada create programmes for Babbage?

You cannot invent yourself. She is generally considered to be the first computer programmer, but the exercise was ultimately academic as the computer it was written for, the Analytical Engine was never built.

First computer before apple computer?

Before the Macintosh (1984) Apple made the Apple I (1976 - 1977), Apple II series (1977 - 1993), Apple III (1980 - 1984) and the Apple Lisa (1983 - 1986). The Apple II remained their best seller even after the launch of the Macintosh which took a few years to finally become their primary computer. The Lisa was re-branded as the Macintosh XL in 1986 and was sold as a top end Mac model.

What is a CMOS chip?

Its is the button battery that stores the BIOS settings for your computer.

Who was the apple invented by?

apple crumble was invented by the famious professor,

dr.wisawock while experimenting cat minuire.

How do you Email a message?

Easy, just go to a website that offers email such as google mail, aol or yahoo, register.

After you register, open your email account, go to compose mail, enter the address you want to send the email to, enter the subject and type the main body of the mail, you can even add an attachment such as a picture or a word document and click on send.

Difference between a mini computer and micro computer?

One difference between microcomputers and minicomputers is their relative size. A minicomputer would describe a server-class machine, meaning a computer with possibly several processors working in tandem, while a microcomputer would describe your average desktop or laptop with a single microprocessor.

Another possible point of comparison would be performance. A minicomputer could describe a very high-end system (e.g. technical workstations like the SGI graphics renderer) capable of doing highly specific and complex tasks, while a microcomputer would describe your basic calculator or PC, which would probably gag at the thought of doing the task of a minicomputer, but would be able to process several high-level languages (e.g. C++, VB, Pascal) and turn them into machine-level language for execution, unlike a majority of minicomputers, which is created such that there is a very tight integration between hardware and software.

What are the Personal computer are made of?

i want to know how did they made personal computers!!!

They take off-the-shelve parts and mount them in a case.

How did networking start?

I retrieve this from http://www.tech-faq.com/who-invented-the-internet.html I hope this answers your question.

Despite what he may have said, Al Gore did not invent the Internet. The Internet was invented in the United States during the late 1950s to the 1970s by a group of researchers and scientists at the newly formed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) after the former Soviet Union launched Sputnik. Realizing that the United States had suffered a great technological blow by allowing the USSR to hold the first successful satellite launch, ARPA set out to create a brand new technology unlike anything that had ever been done before; and the Internet was the result of their hard work.

Although there were many people working for ARPA on the Internet project, there are five individuals who can really be credited with actually creating the Internet. Among them was J. C. R. Licklider, the head of the Information Processing Technology Office at ARPA. In his position, he thought up the idea of the Internet itself as a way of potentially unifying humans from around the United States (and the world) through a universal network.

Because Licklider's previous experience was not in actual computer programming, however, he had to recruit others in order to help create the Internet for ARPA. The obvious choice was Lawrence Roberts. Roberts went on to lead the team which would eventually develop ARPANET (the early precursor to the Internet) in 1967. He was the scientist to finally utilize the proposed method of packet switching first created by Leonard Kleinrock. The Internet still uses packet switching as its primary way of transferring data.

After several years of work, a computer at the University of California, Los Angeles, became the first computer to connect to the Internet. In time, three more computers would be connected to the Internet in 1969, leading to the start of the Internet revolution.

Despite the massive success that Lawrence Roberts had received while working at ARPA, he promptly quit his position in 1973 in order to form the world's first commercial network, known at that time as Telenet. However, in his place, he assigned Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf to continue working on the Internet at ARPA. Together, Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf worked to modify the original method of packet switching pioneered by Roberts and Kleinrock and eventually created what is now known as the protocols. It was at this point when ARPANET was finally changed to the more easily pronounced Internet.

What does plastic memory mean?

If you heat a type of plastic and bend it and let it cool down bent it will stay bent, but if you hold the bent plastic on or over the heat it will bend back so it's straight again

The first technologic invention?

Technology, is a broad subject, what defines a thing as being Technical, as compared with the opposite of Technical? Your nose is running, you grab a leaf off a tree, and wipe your nose,, is that a Technical use for a leaf? The Technical use of a leaf, would require scientific study, but Technically without the correct tools and implements, it would be near impossible to study the chemical makeup, or cell structures to determine a prima facie use. You are hungry, you see a small creature, you grab a stick, and whack the life out of it, Technically you just discovered a use for a stick, and a crude tool for killing small creatures. It can be assumed that technology, and a technical use for a "Thing" are two different Animals. Whereas if the Stick had improvements made to it, such as adding thorns to to add to the injury, and killing power, then that would be a Technological advancement. The first use of Technology would be by necessity dealing with Survival, and as we are told, all of us came out of Africa, So Africa would have to be the origin of the first Technology mankind had ever witnessed. This topic is of course Very debatable, and depends on who Defines the Words to begin with, but there can be no Debate, that of all "ology" Technology is the Greatest, and has lead the world to the stars and back.

Year the laptop was made?

It was first conceived in 1972 by Alan Kay. The first flip form laptop was built in 1982 - it was the Grid Compass 1100.

Who invented machine language?

Computer languages were not discovered, as no computers used them before people used them. Computer languages are artificial languages invented by people to simplify control of computers.

As to the inventors of the earliest computer languages they were:

  1. John Backus of IBM: FORTRAN.
  2. Grace Hopper of UNIVAC: A-0, FLOW-MATIC, COBOL.

Both did their original compiler development work ca. 1954.

Who suggested the stored program concept and in which year?

Probably sometime in 1944 in random discussions on the US Army's Project PX, to build ENIAC. However nothing could be done with it as ENIAC plans were frozen, it would have to wait for the end of the war and other funding sources. It would also have to wait for memory technologies to be developed with a much lower cost per bit/digit than the ENIAC memory (20, 10-digit accumulators made of hundreds of tubes per accumulator). That alone would require large amounts of research funding, before serious work on a stored program computer could really begin.

Without "large cheap fast memories" first, the stored program computer concept was worthless (the adjectives "large", "cheap", and "fast" are often mutually contradictory). It really wasn't until magnetic core memory, just under a decade later that that requirement began to be fulfilled, and it wasn't until 1971 when intel introduced the 1103 DRAM that memory size limits really began to be lifted as costs per bit dropped even faster.