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Computer History
This category includes questions and answers about the history of the computer. Ask questions about the first computer and major developments in computing.
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Computing is computing that relates to emotion or deliberately tries to influence emotion?
affective computing!
I think that they were made as a new form of public transportation, so that people hat a steady relyable form of transportation that wouldn't get stuck in traffic. Its also cheaper than a subway.
Computer topics for poster presentation?
give me a interesting topis for poster creation
for computer science students
Were there computers in the 1960s?
Yes, Charles Babbage (England) designed and built a mechanical computer beginning in 1822. It had more than 25000 parts and weighed 15 tons and wasn't as powerful as a pocket computer these days.
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Can you UK DVDs on American DVDS?
The question doesn't really make sense. I think you are missing some words. But DVDs have region codes and only some DVD players will play certain types. So check that first.
I don't think so. The commercial DVD player specification requires that a player to be sold in a given place not play discs encoded for a different region (region 0 discs are not restricted). The purpose of this is to allow motion picture studios to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and, especially, price, according to the region.
Fortunately, So far Most freeware and open source DVD players, such as VLC, ignore region coding. Most commercial players are locked to a region code, but can be easily changed with software. You could find a guide about removing region code from DVD via related links below:
What is Charles Babbage's birthday?
Charles Babbage, a British mathematician and original thinker, was the inventor of the first mechanical computing machine, called the 'Difference Engine'. He has often been referred to, quite rightly, as the 'Pioneer of the computer'.
How many keys does a glockenspiel have?
A glockenspiel does not have a set number of keys. It can have twenty or thirty keys, depending on the size and number of octaves represented.
What is the difference between parallel and serial ports?
SERIAL AND PARALLEL COMUNICATION MEANS THE METHOD USED FOR COMMUNICATION.IN SERIAL COMMUNICATION THE DATA THAT IS TO BE COMMUNICATED IS PASSED SERIALLY THAT IS ONE BY ONE.IN PARALLEL COMUNICATION THE DATAS ARE PASSED PARALLEL. SERIAL AND PARALLEL COMUNICATION MEANS THE METHOD USED FOR COMMUNICATION.IN SERIAL COMMUNICATION THE DATA THAT IS TO BE COMMUNICATED IS PASSED SERIALLY THAT IS ONE BY ONE.IN PARALLEL COMUNICATION THE DATAS ARE PASSED PARALLEL.
A technological invention that came before computers?
The plow, steam engine, movable print, the cotton gin, etc.
What is the History of batch operating system?
Not really but it is interesting to learn. Batch files are small programs that can be written in DOS. They also run in DOS. Any PC can get to the DOS shell by typing Start>run>cmd. To get out of the DOS shell just type exit. Go to amazon and get you an old book on DOS and it will also have info on how to write batch files, it may get you interested in programming because that's what it is.
What was the first computer with an operating system?
The first operating systems were nothing like modern operating systems and were usually called batch monitors, because all they did was automatically ran jobs sequentially in batch mode. Computers of the time had no interactive mode of operation. Computer companies did not supply software of any kind with their machines, so it was usually up to the user (company, university, government office) to write all their own software. The first batch monitor/operating system was done in 1954 by MIT for their UNIVAC 1103. General Motors did one in 1955 for their IBM 701.
The first computer to come from the manufacturer with an operating system already installed is a different question.
Who was the first person to use the computer?
The first recorded use of the word in the English language was in 1613 and referred to a person - someone who computed.
The first recorded use of the word for an electrical item which did the computation for you was 1897.
Although Charles Babbage had devised what was effectively a mechanical computer in 1837, the term, 'computer' was not used for it. He called it an 'Analytical Engine'.
Konrad Zuse [ˈkɔn.ʁat ˈtsuː.zə] (June 22, 1910 Berlin - December 18, 1995 Hünfeld) was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled computer, the Z3, in 1941 (the program was stored on a tape). In 1998, the Z3 was shown to be Turing-complete. He received the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring in 1964 for the Z3. Zuse also designed the first high-level programming language, Plankalkül, first published in 1948, although this was a theoretical contribution, since the language was not implemented in his lifetime and did not directly influence early languages. Wikipedia can work wonders. Hope this helped!
What is the first electronic item invented?
Probably it's the guy that invented the Leyden jar, wouldn't you think? In other words, it stored a charge and could give off that charge on demand. In a sense, that's a machine which we now commonly call a `capacitor', although it's made of different materials, it still functions the same.
How many computers have been made?
That number can't be exact, but it's increasing over one hundred or more. (Maybe)
What was the name of the company bill gates created?
Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces.
The WWW refers to the combination of HTTP protocols and HTML to create a network of hyperlinked documents using the Internet. Unlike the Internet which was a colaborative effort, it was invented by one man - Dr TIm Berners Lee - as a means of researchers at CERN sharing experimental results.No one owns the world wide web but you can host your own web if you have the hardware. You can have your website hosted if you know who will host it. Web development has a development regulations department, but they don't own all the worlds interconnected computers.
Which computer is known as the first computer of the world?
It depends on what you mean by computer, but the first electronic, partly programmable computer was the colossus computer built by Tommy Flowers in 1943.
Information about the first computer?
First programmable computer
The Z1 originally created by Germany's Konrad Zuse in his parents living room in 1936 to 1938 is considered to be the first electrical binary programmable computer.
The first digital computer
Short for Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the ABC started being developed by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry in 1937 and continued to be developed until 1942 at the Iowa State College (now Iowa State University). On October 19, 1973, US Federal Judge Earl R. Larson signed his decision that the ENIAC patent by Eckert and Mauchly was invalid and named Atanasoff the inventor of the electronic digital computer. The ENIAC was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. It occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons. Although the Judge ruled that the ABC computer was the first digital computer many still consider the ENIAC to be the first digital computer. Because of the Judge ruling and because the case was never appealed like most we consider the ABC to be the first digital computer. However, because the ABC was never fully functional we consider the first functional digital computer to be the ENIAC.
The first stored program computer
The early British computer known as the EDSAC is considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. The computer performed its first calculation on May 6, 1949 and was the computer that ran the first graphical computer game. The first personal computer
In 1975 Ed Roberts coined the term personal computer when he introduced the Altair 8800. Although the first personal computer is considered to be the Kenback-1, which was first introduced for $750 in 1971. The computer relied on a series of switches for inputting data and output data by turning on and off a series of lights. The Micral is considered the be the first commercial non-assembly computer. The computer used the Intel 8008 processor and sold for $1,750 in 1973. The first workstation
Although never sold the first workstation is considered to be the Xerox Alto, introduced in 1974. The computer was revolutionary for its time and included a fully functional computer, display, and mouse. The computer operated like many computers today utilizing windows, menus and icons as an interface to its operating system. The first laptop or portable computer
The first portable computer or laptop is considered to be the Osborne I, a portable computer developed by Adam Osborne that weighed 24 pounds, a 5-inch display, 64 KB of memory, two 5 1/4" floppy drives, and a modem.
What replaced vacuum tubes in the computer?
Integrated circuits (in many microprocessor integrated circuits) containing many billions of transistors each.
A high speed printing device that primarily uses a laser and static electricity for attaching toner to paper. I believe it should really be called the static electricity printer! You see; the primary principle at work in this machine is static electricity. The laser inside the printer never really touches the paper.
The LASER printer really has four basic parts that are most important.
1. The laser Unit (with mirror)
2. The Toner Hopper
3. The Drum Assembly (with 3 additional parts)
4. And the Fuser assembly.
How a laser printer is working:
1. Whenever the printer gets its information, the printers' circuit board then takes that information and converts it into a code. Like Morse code.
2. The laser prints it to a negative (statically) charged rotating drum.
3. when the laser pulses light on the drum it creates a small DOT of neutral electricity.
4. the drum or (toner hopper) charges the toner powder to a negative charge as well.
5. when the toner is pushed through the drum the toner is sucked into the Neutral spaces left by the laser. Creating an image.
6. paper is Positively charged. and pushed through the drum. The toner is statically bonded to the paper. Like a magnet, it sticks together.
7. the fuser assembly heats up 300+ degrees and fuses the toner to the paper.
Different from inkjet printers using ink, laser printers use toner as printing materials.
Ink cartridges are usually cheaper than toner cartridges. However, toner cartridge has the lower cost per page than inkjet does.
Charles Babbage is considered as "father of the computer", Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to more complex designs.
When was the first IBM PC sold?
The original IBM PC, also known as the 5150, was was introduced on August 12, 1981.
