Computer History

ENIAC Or John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr.

Though I'm not sure who actually invented the wireless keyboard, one of the first wireless keyboards was part of IBM PCjr in 1983.

Yes, one of the companies well known in the Computer Industry was called International Business Machines when they built the business building Typewriters. That company is now known as IBM. Both Typewriters and computer use keyboards. Typewriters were invented before Computers but a Typewriter can do some things but a Computer can do a lot more

Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

The first computers used in automobiles were engine control computers installed in the early 1980s to meet increasingly tight EPA emission control specifications that could no longer be met with catalytic converters, mechanical control devices, etc. As the engine control task used only a small amount of the actual capacity of these computers, it was not long before car manufacturers began adding additional tasks to the computers.

The computer was invented for storing data, making fast calculations and easy communication.

Keyboards were developed in the 19th century to operate the first typewriters. The concept most likely came from musical instruments such as pianos and organs, where a series of keys and/or levers are used to access individual notes. By the 1930s keyboards were used as interfaces to electrical devices such as teletypes because they were already widely familiar and the technology was well-established. Because computer interfaces began as an outgrowth of teletypes and electric typewriters, and office workers were already familiar with typing, there was no call to develop a different interface. The keyboard, albeit with modifications, simply migrated from the typewriter to the computer as we know it today. Interesting sidelight - the near-universal QWERTY key layout was developed in the 19th century by a man named Christopher Sholes. They layout was actually chosen to be as inefficient as possible! Early keyboards were totally mechanical, and good typists could type faster than the mechanisms responded which caused jams and breakage. Sholes put the most-used letters (e, s, a, etc.) under the weakest fingers of the left hand as a way of forcing typists to slow down. Electric keyboards weren't developed until decades later, but by that point Sholes' layout had become standard, kind of like the oddball size of railroad tracks or the U.S.'s continued use of feet and pounds that are rooted in history. There are alternative key layouts, notably the Dvorak keyboard, that allow typists to work almost twice as fast but they remain a very marginal part of the marketplace.

Paul Allen but now he works for mac

The first computer which was intended to be sold to individuals as opposed to companies was the Altair 8800, which was sold in kit form in 1975 for $439.

With machines life is more difficult for the mind, but easier on the body. We need to be able to use more complicated things, but we don't need to do much heavy lifting any more.

Yes or no, depending on what the task is. As an example, if you are inputting data into a computer via keyboard, magnetic tape, hard disk file transfer, or keypunch card, the task is completely mechanical.
On the other hand, if you are performing a data processing task related to reading a printed report and manually compiling data, it is not at all mechanical.

The Commodore 64 is the best-selling single personal computer model of all time. Released in August 1982 by Commodore Business Machines, the Commodore 64 is commonly referred to as the C64 and occasionally known as CBM 64 (its model designation) or C-64. Introduced by Commodore Business Machines in August 1982 at a price of US$595 (then later reduced to US$200 in late 1983), it offered 64 kilobytes of RAM with sound and graphics performance that were superior to IBM-compatible computers of that time. During the Commodore 64's lifetime (between 1982 and 1994), sales totaled around 17 million units.

Technology has been slowly advancing and changing for all of human history, and as it advances, the definition of what 'Advanced Technology' is also changed. In it's time, the Roman Empire was considered to have extremely advanced technology. However, it can be said that the modern age began roughly the time World War 1 ended.

• slide rules (linear, circular, cylindrical, etc.)
• nomographs
• mechanical desk calculators
• printed lookup tables
• napier's bones
• sector
• abacus and counting boards
• fingers
• etc.

Comparison between micro processor Intel and Motorola

Charles Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer. Although he was not able to create a computer, he came up with the design and concept of the first modern computers.

No, the earliest computers (from the 1940s to the mid 1960s) were all mainframe computers. The first microcomputers were made in the early 1970s. However many of the earliest computers were much slower and had far less memory than the earliest microcomputers!

1. UNIVAC 1
2. IBM 704
3. UNIVAC 1105
4. IBM 305 RAMAC
5. IBM 7090
6. UNIVAC 1110
7. Honeywell Datamatic
8. IBM System 360
9. RCA Spectra 70
10. DEC PDP-10
11. DECSYSTEM-20
12. IBM System 370
13. Burroughs Datatron 205
14. Unisys ClearPath
15. etc.

The purpose of the machine was to create a mechanical brain that could create interest for others to make more creations of its kind.

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Computers can't think for themselves like humans. Computers fabricated, Humans are born. Humans we are breathing, living creatures and computers are just wires and programs. Humans have intelligent brain but computer does not have.

Every thing was all codes and formulas that had to beinputted by the user. No quick add the numbers together like on today's spreadsheet. I remember working for hours just to get the codes in the computer. You had to manually set and do everything, every little bit of it.
bla bla bla bla blaType your answer here...
by wiring many programs together then unplugging them to switch the application being used.

The first analog computer invented was the Antikythera Mechanism, about 2000 years ago. One sample was found in an ancient shipwreck about 1910. It was designed to calculate astronomical positions for navigation.

The first digital computer invented was the Analytical Engine, about 200 years ago. It was never built. It was entirely mechanical and intended to be powered by a steam engine. It was fully programable and general purpose with an architecture very much like modern electronic digital computers.