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All computers, whether mechanical or electronic, can be divided into two distinct classes, depending on the form in which information is handled. If the information is handled in the form of letters or digits, they are classed as digital computers. If...

Before the age of computers, automatic data processing was handled mainly by punched card machines. What is punched card? You must have seen a bus conductor punching a hole in your ticket at a specific place. This is to indicate the stage at which you...

Charles Babbage was born on December 26, 1792, in London. He studied at Trinity College, and became a professor of Mathematics at the Cambridge University. The idea of mechanically calculating mathematical tables first came to Babbage in 1812 or 1813....

The first devise that might be considered to be a computer in modern sense of the worked was conceived in 1822 by the British mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage.In Babbage's time, mathematical tables were calculated by teems of mathematicians...

Mechanical calculator Braise Pascal, noted mathematician, thinker, and scientist, built the first mechanical calculator in 1642.Hismachine used gears, wheels and dials. When the wheels were turned in the proper order, a series of numbers were entered...

Ancient computer T he Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical calculator designed to calculate astronomical positions. It is also described as the first 'mechanical computer'. It was discovered more than 100 years ago in a Roman shipwreck, and...

Calculator We know that a calculator works with numbers. So does a computer. We also know that calculators are very fast... so ar computers. So what is the difference between them? To put it very simply, calculators can do only one thing a time. When...

Abacus, also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool used primarily by Asians for performing arithmetic processes. Today, abaci are often constructed as a wooden frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beads or stones moved...

Our modern age has been called the computer age, and today, computers can carry out almost all the tasks that humans require. These may vary from writing to space travel!! Computers can remember vast amounts of information, and they make very few mistakes....

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