i need this answered fast cuse it is a project i need done by tommorrow!!
2006-11-01 09:34:33 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
In 1645, Blaise Pascal built a 'Calculating Machine'.
In 1837, Charles Babbage described his 'Difference Engine', a machine originally conceived to calculate tide times and various mathematical tables, to take out the possibility of arithmetical error (he was a fanatical perfectionist!).
In 1841, Thomas Fowler built a calculating machine out of wood (!)
During the Second World War, Alan Turing, assisted by W. G. Welchman, designed a machine to decipher German codes. After the War, this was developed into what we would recognise as the modern computer.
2006-11-01 10:00:18 · answer #1 · answered by ~jve~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wondering is right this computer (ENIAC) well in a sence but the difference machine was nothing more then a part of a computer the first and it was programed by hard wiring it and it took up two to three rooms
it basically had the power of a limited calculator.
and it was very noisey when it was running and due to vacuum tube at the time it produced a lot of heat and forever replacing vacuum tubes.
2006-11-01 13:10:37 · answer #2 · answered by Paul G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Correct. The first computer was build to do rocket trajectories after the Soviets launched Sputnik, first satellite in the late 1950's. The computer was so large it occupied several rooms. It was predicted at the time that five or six computers were all the world would ever need.
2006-11-01 09:54:46 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think because the guy who invented the computer needed more fingers and toes to finish a math problem.
Actually, when you think of what a computer is (a machine to repetitive tasks faster and more accurately), you can count the abacus as a first "computer." But I believe the first real computers were used during WWII to crack codes.
I may be wrong there. Been years since I read that.
2006-11-01 09:39:20 · answer #4 · answered by Ken G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the first computer was made to make calculating algorithms quicker and easier. It was a project by the government for predicting how to launch rockets and how it will land, a predicted trajectory for missiles, etc.
2006-11-01 09:37:36 · answer #5 · answered by lookup613 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He's right and the name of it was ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)
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2006-11-01 09:39:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here it is, and the test should tell you why. Really the computer was (and still is) a calculator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_computer#1801:_punched_card_technology
2006-11-01 09:41:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was made for research but they fixed it so you could play games,edit stuff,doodle,research,create things,and alot of other stuff.
2006-11-01 09:38:59 · answer #8 · answered by MissJonesyTheFox 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋