History Of The Computer Industry In America
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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 now exists in nearly every business in the U.S. and one out of
every two househ ....
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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 1800Os, a mathematics professor named Charles Babbage
designed an automatic calculation machine. It was steam powered and could
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