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Computer History
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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.
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:
- John Backus of IBM: FORTRAN.
- 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.
Glass was first "created" for human use by the Syrians and then later by the Romans.
More specifically, according to Pliny the Elder, it was the Phoenicians that first invented glass.
Glass blowing was invented by the Syrians in the 1st century BC.
What is the purpose of a workstation?
A workstation is a high-end microcomputer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by one person at a time, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating systems. .
for that it can handle much better than normal Personal computer.
The first official public Personal Computer was introduced
in 1975, entitled MITS Altair.
What company created the Winchester computer drive?
In 1973, IBM developed the Winchester computer drive
What did the very first computer look like?
The screen was very bad and it was much heavier and bigger than computers today. They took up entire rooms and a hard disk for 5 megs was ans wide as your arms are long (this is 80s military tech). They also had what look like giant casset players (as tall as you are wider then your arm span). This was used to play the previous version of the floppy, which was a long magnetic tape, just like VHS and tapes.
Importance of computer in hospital?
Biotechnology That is the correct name but does not explain what. Electronics are used in medicine to supply many functions to help us survive. Artificial heart for one or heart stimulus to control the rate of beating of the heart.
What is Computers to which other computers connect called?
A Server
Depends on the network topology (design). Is the topology a token-ring, star, bus, etc? Server is usually the correct answer in general, but you also have switches, routers, and on older networks, hubs. Some old networks didn't use servers at all. All of the computers combined made up the "server" so to speak as they were all directly linked to one another such as in a bus topology. The problem with bus is that if on computer goes down, the entire network goes down.
When was the first apple mac laptop invented?
Interesting Facts:
Though often thought of as the first mac laptop, The "Mac Portable" (released in 1989) was not the first mobile computer with a Mac OS. The "DynaMac" released in 1987 used a Mac Plus ROM in a laptop case. The $4,000 to $8,000, 18 to 24 pound laptops were a repackaged Mac Plus or SE with a 9" 640x400 backlit amber electroluminescent or gas plasma screen. Dynamic acted as an official Value Added Reseller for Apple. Like other laptops of the day, there was no integrated pointing device (none needed for DOS!), so users had to attach an external mouse. So the Mac Portable was rather innovative in that it included a trackball.
How do you explain about computer?
Computer of all sizes have common characteristics - speed, arithmetical and logical operations, accuracy, reliability, storage, retrieving data and programs, automation, versatility, communications, diligence , feelings ,travel and leisure life today. Computers are the foundation of business, travel , and leisure life today. Computer provide the processing speed required by all facets of society. The quick service we expect at the bank, at the grocery store, on the stock exchange, and on the stock exchange ,and on the Internet are dependent on the speed of computer.
What is the mission statement of CISCO?
Cisco ... enables people to make powerful connections - whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible-providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time."
Doug Engelbart has invented many things that make computing easier for us Name three?
the compurter mouse windows and hypermedia
To summarise all the previous answers - its the shareholders.
I'm pretty sure it doesn't i think it says bu I'm not sure and my friends said it wont
Rubies are a nonconducting gem stone. Almost all crystals, stones and gemstones are nonconductors, with a few rare exceptions, such as graphite.
Why computer called computer not calculator?
A calculator requires that a human tell it each operation step by step as the problem is being solved, every time a problem is being solved.
A computer performs the steps needed to solve the problem automatically without human supervision, once those steps had been specified (i.e. computer program) by humans.
