History Of Computer
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History of the Computer Industry in AmericaAmerica and the Computer Industry
Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way
we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more no ....
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.... beads are moved along the wire according to "programming" rules that the user must me!
morize, all ordinary arithmetic
operations can be performed (Soma, 14). The next innovation in computers took place in 1694 when Blaise Pascal invented
the first "digital calculating machine". It could only add numbers and they had to be entered by turning dials. It was designed to
help Pascal’s father who was a tax collector (Soma, 32).In the early 1800Õs, a mathematics professor named Charles
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