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    History of Computing: From The Past To The Present

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    The document traces the history of computing from early counting tools like the abacus to modern computers. It outlines the major developments including mechanical calculators in the 17th century, programmable looms using punch cards, early electromechanical computers in the 20th century, and the first general-purpose electronic computers in the 1940s. Major generations of computers are also summarized, from the room-sized ENIAC of the 1940s to integrated circuits and personal computers of the 1970s and beyond.

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    History of computing

    From the past to the present

    The first steps


    Make the life the calculating easier and faster.
    The first invetions were very simple things like : rocks, sticks
    Abacus, Napier bones, Ropes

    Mechanical calculators

    The first real steps : Mechanical calculators


    Williem Shickard 1623
    Pascal, Leibinz, Xavier
    Shickards calculator

    Pascal

    Leibinz

    Xavier

    The programmable machines


    Joseph Marie Jacquard
    Loom
    Worked with punch cards
    The first automatic machine

    Babbage notiched the connection between the programable


    loom and the calculators -> first plans
    He couldnt build his own machine

    The 20th cenutry


    The development is accelerated
    Electromechanical computers
    Conrad Zuse german professor (Z1,Z2)
    First programmable, electronic machines
    From this point computers

    First generation
    Started with ENIAC (Neumann Jnos) 1943
    Enormous sizes
    Very slow
    Repair 15 minutes
    The programing was really hard -> with mechanical codes

    Second generation
    1958
    Transistors -> smaller
    Magnetic storage
    The first programing languages not universal (FORTRAN)

    Third generation
    1965
    IC (integrated circuit) -> smaller
    A lot new programming language (BASIC)
    Much faster calculation speed (1 million operation / sec)
    The first operation systems
    The first monitors

    The fourth generation


    1971
    Chip
    Drasticly increased speed
    Mass audience
    New languages (PASCAL)

    The fifth generation


    From 1991 - ???
    To be continued

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