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Computer History
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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
Are computers becoming teachers of humans?
NO, humans created the computers and humans put the information on the computers the computers have no thinking ability what so ever... the information you see on a website that you learn from is not the computer teaching you its the person who created the site that is teaching you.
What is the name of the first full length computer animated movie?
The first fully computer generated feature film was 1995's Toy Story however the first animated film to use CGI was 1983's Rock & Rule,
Did they have computers in the 1900's?
no, first 'computer' was invented in 1959. There were no electronic computers in 1912. For one thing, the science of electronics as we know it had barely started. Even radio broadcasting was still in its infancy, with most "wireless" communications consisting of Morse code broadcasts - not voice or music. There were some simple analog computers, which were mechanical devices that could be made to perform simple fixed calculations for things such as navigation and aiming military weapons. The concept of the computer as we know it, with the idea of a stored program and input/output stages actually dated back to the 19th century when a British inventor named Babbage laid out the design of a programmable mechanical computer. However the metalworking techniques of the day weren't accurate enough to allow his machine to function properly. It was not until the late 1930s that work on computers as we know them began, partly due to the need for increased calculation speeds due to progress in physics and chemistry, and significantly due to wartime needs in cryptography, aerial bombing, and signal processing. True commercial use of electronic computing didn't begin until the 1950s, and personal computers as we know them took another 20 years or so to reach the marketplace.
For more information look up some of the following (just a very tiny sampling!)
People - Babbage, Turing, Eckert, Mauchly Machines - Whirlwind, Enigma, Eniac, Zeus Other topics - Cryptography, Bletchley Park, IBM, Sperry-Univac
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That depends on how you define "computer". It is generally accepted that Konrad Zuse (a German) designed and built the first programmable electro-mechanical computing machine, or digital computer, called the Z3, in 1941. It was destroyed during the course of World War II.
What are the Pros and Cons of being a computer technician?
Positive aspects of becoming a computer technician include being able to fix your own computer. The job has room for growth, there is flexibility in career options, and computer technician jobs typically pay well.
What were people's first reactions to the computer when it was invented in 1945?
They were used entirely for in-house think tank applications dealing with defense, there was public knowledge they existed, but they were not, by any stretch of the imagination consumer products. they must have been used in nuclear weapons research and development among other war projects. So, there was no real public reaction, unlike, say touch-tone phones or similar products.
Where did the world wide web originate?
This is hard to pin down. Alot of information on the web tries to give credit to Europe in the late 80s. I have been taught in my network courses that it was the U.S. around 1957. Originally networks to decentralize military computers. Then colleges and university's developed ever increasing networks. www is content from everywhere, its the network that makes it possible.
The World Wide Web could be said to have originated in England, thanks to a relatively unknown chap named Tim Berners-Lee. A software consultant at the European organisation for Nuclear Research, Berners-Lee presented his supervisor with a proposal in 1989 outlining ideas for an electronic document exchange programme. This proposal would enable scientific papers to be read on a variety of otherwise incompatible computer systems. Initially, his superiors were not interested, but Berners-Lee persisted. When he was able to achieve the first successful communication between an HTP client and a server using the Internet (which is actually different to the world wide web) on 25 December 1990 that he finally gained the interest, and the support, to see his proposal put into action.
When did they create the computers?
- The first electronic digital computer was built in 1942. Called the ABC it was built in Ames, IA by John Vincent Atanasoff & Clifford Berry.
- The first programmable electronic digital computer was built in 1943. Called Colossus Mark I it was built by Thomas Flowers and a team at the Dolis Hills lab of the British Post Office for Bletchley Park. Through 1944 and 1945 up to the end of the war in Europe 10 more Colossus Mark IIimproved models that used parallel processing to run 5 times faster were built.
- The first programmable electronic digital computer using a stored program (like all modern computers) was built in 1948. Called the Manchester Baby.
The ARPANET project began with its seed ideas, as early as 1962. From the page below, you can read:
"First ARPANET IMP log: the first message ever sent via the ARPANET, 10:30 pm, 29 October 1969."
The direct answer to your question, then, is sometime between 1962 and October 29, 1969, depending on your definition of 'constructed'.
What year was the first 3.5 floppy disk invented?
it was introduced because it was a simple and easy memory storage and then they introduced Cd's which killed the floppy discs
Who are the two most powerful and important men in computer history?
A few years back, many would have said Bill Gates of Microsoft and Steve Jobs of Apple. However, Steve Jobs passed away and Bill Gates is no longer a part of Microsoft. Early in 2015, Bill Gates completely retired from Microsoft. He retired as CEO around 2000 and as Chairman in early 2015.
What are fifth generation computers?
the computers which have the ability to:
1. think as a human2. act as a human
3. think rationally
4. act rationally
are said to be artificially intelligent computer..
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What are the positive affects of computers on society?
There are many good advantages of the computer. It has opened an access to immense source of material which anyone can take advantage of. The computers gave an opportunity to humans to enter in era of internet which changed the whole meaning of global communication.
