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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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What was the first fully functional computer called?
ENIAC.
No it was not the ENIAC. The first fully functional, fully programmable computer was the Z3. It was invented by a German Konrad Zuse before the ENIAC existed. Americans did not invent the computer.
No. He was born in London, England in 1791 and died there in 1871.
Who was the first to conceptualized the design of the modern computer?
The first ever GUI face computer was developed by Xerox however it was big and clunky. Steve Wozniack (Woz.org) invented the first personal computer and was partners with Steve Jobs and opened up a company called Apple. Yes, Apple and MacIntosh. Steve Wozniack still answers emails and you can read his stories when Apple started at his website under either Woz.org or IWoz.org. Bill Gates then also used the Windows GUI interface you see today on all Windows and the rest is history. But to answer your question Xerox created the first computer called the "Alto" and the first Personal Computer was invented by Steve Wozniack with Apple.
What was the name of worlds first electronic digital computer?
That is a close race between:
- Atanasof Berry Computer (ABC) - electronic, binary 50 bit fixed point, 60 words dynamic memory (capacitors), 30 add/sub persec, special purpose not programmable array/vector processor
- Konrad Zuse Z1 (Zuse Z1) - mechanical binary 22 bit floating point, 64 words static memory (mechanical), add/sub 5 sec, mult 10 sec, general purpose programmable (using punched recycled movie film as tape) scalar processor
How does an inclined plane make your life easier?
An inclined plane can help make work easier because it makes less effort then simply lifting it up. <(^^)> <(^^<) <(^^)> (>^^)> <(^^)> THAT IS THE WRONG ANSWER THE REAL ANSWER ->
Classification of computer by age of technology?
- Vacuum tube
- Discrete transistor (a few used magnetic amplifiers)
- Integrated circuit (both hybrids and monolithics)
- Microprocessors (both multi-chip chipsets and single chip)
- Multi-core microprocessors and system on a chipprocessors
First and second generation computers usually were separated into business and scientific product lines, with completely different architectures optimized for market application. Most third generation and beyond used a common general purpose architecture regardless of market application.
System on a chip processors have one or more processor cores plus most of the I/O hardware normally on a motherboard in a single chip. This eliminates most of the need for a motherboard.
Who is known as the father of modern digital programmable computer and why?
Charles Babbage because he invented the "Difference Engine."
Name of the all super computers?
There is a list of companies that used to make super computers and some of those companies still do make super computers. The question is simply but the answer keeps changing on a day by day basis especially if you include the military super computers. IBM and Toshiba make that size of computer.
Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper rose to the challenges of programming the first computers. During her lifetime as a leader in software development, she contributed to the transition from primitive programming techniques to the use of sophisticated compilers. In 1930 Grace Murray married Vincent Foster Hopper.
When was the Colossus computer built?
The actual computers called Colossus were World War II code-breaking computers built in 1943 and 1944 in Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England. These were the first true programmable computers, and about a dozen were built.
The prototype, Colossus Mark I, was shown working in December 1943 and was operational at Bletchley Park by February 1944. An improved Colossus Mark II was first installed in June 1944, and ten more had been constructed by the end of the war. Unfortunately, the secret nature of these computers meant that their innovations were not available for commercial computer development for many years.
*The other computer called Colossus is a fictional artificial intelligence from a 1965 novel (Colossus) by Dennis Feltham Jones, which was the basis for the film Colossus, the Forbin Project in 1970
What is computers significance today?
Computers are universal tools; we can use these tools to improve our lives in a variety of fashions. Humanity has already implemented computers in daily use items from calculators for assistance mathematics to automobiles for transport.
Who was the first president to have his inaugution on the internet?
Another answer would note that the Internet was not actually invented until several years later than the above scenario, when multiple networks were connected together (an "internet" is, by definition more than one network), and the internet protocol was standardized in 1982.
How do you think technology will affect lives in the future?
The air will be highly low quality. There won't be much plants left on Earth. Global warming will increase and so will the temperature. Polar animals will die because of this global warming and so will other animals.
What are the uses of computers in your community?
They are at my school to take tests and do projects, for instance.
When was the first super computer invented and by which country?
Supercomputers are designed not discovered. Discovery implies it already existed before we became aware of it. The first 4 machines commonly identified as possible first supercomputer candidates are:
- IBM NORC - 1954 - speed about 15KOPS - Byron L. Havens was engineer in charge of a team of about 100 working on the project - built 1.
- UNIVAC LARC - 1960 - speed about 250KOPS - unknown design team, specification written at LLNL - built 2.
- IBM Stretch 7030 - 1961 - speed about 1.2MOPS - S. W. Dunwell was executive in charge with R. E. Merwin and E. Bloch responsible for overall engineering direction of a team of hundreds working on the project - built 9.
- CDC 6600 - 1964 - speed about 3MOPS - Seymour Cray was head designer of a team of about a dozen - built about 100.
In the earliest days of electronic digital computing was there an operating system?
No, early computers ran only one job at a time from the 1940s through most of the 1950s. Operators had to manually set the machine up for each job.
The earliest operating systems, introduced in the late 1950s were really "batch monitors" that still ran one job at a time but automatically loaded and started the next job (reducing operator workload and reduced computer idle time between jobs).
It was not until the early to middle 1960s that true multitasking operating systems were introduced, allowing multiple jobs to load and run together. Virtual memory and memory protection were added to operating systems starting in the middle 1960s, but were not offered generally until the 1970s.
Describe two problems associated with vacuum tubes in the first computers?
I'm not sure what you mean by "this computer" but vacuum tubes have the following problems anywhere they are used:
- high voltage required for operation
- get very hot
- short lifetime, heater burns out
- large physical size
When was the first apple computer available for sale?
Apple's Macintosh computer was first sold on 24th January 1984.
When the computer was created the first time?
The first computer was created for the first time in 1831. This idea was improved upon in 1833 with more improvements after the early 1900's. The United States first used a working computer to try and decipher enemy codes during World War II.
Who built the first computer and how it was?
A: For personal computer has to be apple. They had a scheme all set up give the apple to schools for free, WHY? Any computer is worthless unless there is software to run it. So students pick it up and generated simple sometimes useful software to run it. IBM big in sales force but no idea followed to make money walla Microsoft got the contract for DOS disk operating system that Was written in one month but the nerd bill gates. I think that is remarkable What i think remarkable is the insistence of IBM to restrict the memory to 640k They thought that nobody will ever write a program needing all those memories
