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The History and Development of Computers
For better or worse, computers have filtered every aspect of our society. Today computers do much more than simply compute. The history and development of computers has come a long way. To fully understand and appreciate the impact computers have on our lives and promises they hold for the future, it is important to understand their evolution.
The abacus, which eme ....
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.... his machine. It wasn't until 1820 that mechanical calculators gained widespread use. Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar, a Frenchman, invented a machine that could perform the four basic arithmetic functions. Colmar's mechanical calculator, the arithometer, presented a more practical approach to computing because it could add, subtract, multiply and divide. Although later inventors refined Colmar's calculator, he helped define the age of mechanical computation. ....
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