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RedbeardComputers were made to do the very tedious computations of everyday life and business. The first calculators performed...
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Many say the first computer is the "difference engine." The first of these devices was conceived in 1786 by J.H. Müllerr It was...
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The answer to this question depends on your definition of a "computer". The earliest "computers" were mechanical devices used to...
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Zero Filling Zero filling is a way to overwrite all data on a hard drive. An analogy would be putting new asphalt over an old...
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There are 3 types of modems, their is the Cable Modem DSL Modem Dial Up Modem (inside older computers)
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I would say talk to your daughter about what she is doing. In chat rooms you can't recall chats unless they are saved so even if...
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No one actually created it. It was discovered in the 1960's. By a solivate union. Al Gore was the first to make a computer that...
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Overview:A computer has many components that work together to produce a picture on your screen, run programs, allow you to type,...
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1.type checking in const that is not a part of #define. 2.scope 3.debugging is possible with const. Answer const variable...
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As of March 12, 2009, POP3 access is now available free to all Hotmail users worldwide. POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995) POP...
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the first computer was invented in the US in 1969 at the Rowayton Library in Norwalk, CT"The Father of Computers" Charles Babbage...
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Father of Computers Babbage invented a 'counting machine' called The Difference Engine. This thing was spectacular. In those days...
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Neumann's architecture is one in which a single memory location (memory address)can be used either to store data or program and...
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"The Father of Computers" Charles Babbage who invented the 1st mechanical Computer.. in 1834 he dreamt of designing mechanical...
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WARNING!! Don't play around in the registry. If you don't know what you're doing, you can (and very likely will) break stuff,...
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You can't really put the credit on just one or two people. One guy discovered electricity (B. Franklin) then another guy used...
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I think....a fist with both hands, keeping your thumbs on the outside and laying them flat. Hold your fists pressed together,...
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Contact AOL, although i doubt it is possible to recover.
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Calculating interest, updating account and loan balances, printing reports, checking for past due loans, maintaining tax records,...
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The first computer deliberately designed to be much faster than the fastest computer available was the IBM NORC built for the...
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A computer tower, also known as a computer case, is the enclosure that holds many components of a personal or office desktop...
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Computer simulation can allow you to see how a system might respond before you design or modify it, so that you can avoid making...
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The analysis of defects to determine their cause. Identify causes of defects, critical issues and other problems, plan and take...
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Tube, transistor, integrated circuit, LSI, VLSI.
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dBASE is a very simple, easy to use, Data Base Management System. We can develop user friendly, simple to advanced...
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So then the nun says, "Pass the avacado!" lol
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Depends on the format IEEE double precision floating point is 64 bits. But all sorts of other sizes have been used IBM 7094...
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People who are on the go, in a train or need to do work while traveling. Or in some cases, students who want a smaller computer...
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Sample: 0AAC1801 BD07A2F3 4740A130 D25B4000 A18ABD07 A2F347D0 A0A04110 405C4150
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Briefly discuss the History of C programming. Include also the updated program of C programming.
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C=communicatingO=outputM=makingP=processingU=unitT=troublingE=erasingR=robbersC=communicating because it allows us to...
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Computer data processing is any computering process that converts datas into information or knowledge. The processing is usually...
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Ansewer The first mechanical computing machine was invented in Greece circa 100 BC: It was used for navigation. it was called...
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Roughly a half million dollars, which was about 10 times what Eckert and Machley thought it would be but very close to what...
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We changed the computer systems so that they would go into the 2000 years and we are still here so yep!
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The first known analog computer is the antikythera mechanism. It was found underwater in 1900. It is believed to have been made...
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History of computersThe first computer ever was made in 1945. They were not like we have them today. They were a sort of...
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The Osborne 1 was not a laptop--it was portable, but it weighed 25 pounds. It had no internal battery, so you had to plug it in....
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AnswerBluetooth is a wireless protocol for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal...
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AnswerDVD was developed by the Engineers of the company Matshusita. AnswerIt was invented by TOSHIBAANSWER FROM...
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Because it applys to everyone who uses a computer.Teenagers dont have special rights when it comes down to misuse acts.
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It's a picture that shows your emotion.(aka Smiley face)
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An analog computer is also called a continuous computer because its variables change smoothly and continuously during operation,...
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More or less, by rewiring it with cables that ran around the machine on a cable tray shelf. It could take several weeks to...
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Collosus If the question is referring to the first ELECTRONIC computer - Collosus was the first electronic computer developed by...
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because in the IBM PC drives a and b were dedicated to floppy drives.
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Digital Computers works on digits like-0 and 1 . Analog Computers works in continuous variable .Input source for these computer...
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the features of computers are it's speed, accuracy, diligenceetc.
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The first computer was called the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer). The contract to make it was signed on...
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The first mass-produced electronic calculator was the IBM 604. It was plugboard programmable with a program of 40 steps that...
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Easier and faster work that saves time and labor.
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In the 1960s and early 1970s computer time on mainframes and large minicomputers cost from $400/hour to $1000/hour. By...
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i want to see my angiography,s CD on my laptop.what is the name of software which i instaled on my laptop.
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people had an easier way to live in a better society way to do their work and people were able to comunicate by internet. Many...
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Wozniak and Jobs sold their first computers in 1976. the first apple computer (the Apple I) was introduced on April 1, 1976 and...
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Nobody discovered the floppy disk. Alan Field Shugart working at IBM on the System/370 project invented them in 1970 as a means...
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The collection of software that directs a computer's operations, controlling and scheduling the execution of other programs, and...
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The laptop computer was invented by Adam Osborne in 1981. It was called the "Osborne 1" and cost $1795. It came bundled with...
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To transfer (data or programs) from a server or host computer to one's own computer or device.
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The first use as a adjective was in 1962, several sources, including the including Merriam Webster Webster says, the first use as...
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The Manchester Mark 1 was the first computer that was made and worked.I do not know EXACTLY when the very first computer was...
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Ada Lovelace was the world's first lady computer programmer. Ada Byron, or better known as Lady Lovelace, a great mathematician...
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because Steve jobs and Steve wozniak(they were the first people to sell apple) were working in an apple farm
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click on my computer, highlight drive C, go into file and click on "explore". Then click on Windows, Temp, and then History. you...
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seems to come up on broadband when computer fail to log on to my homepage or any other webpages. suspect it happens when...
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The first computer was the ENIAC and it stood for Electronic Numerator Integrator Analyzer and Computer. It weighed 27 tons and...
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our apple laptop costs php 55,000.00 when it is brand new
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At 27 tonnes and the size of an entire room, the world's first computer is just as elaborate as its name suggests — ENIAC or...
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Internet comes from "Inter-Network" which is simply the description applied to several "computer networks" linked together....
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the first computer was invented in 1943 by the united states military during ww2.
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If you're asking about their resistance to spy ware, ad ware, and viruses, yes they are. Apple is no fluffy manufacturer though....
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That would be Ada Lovelace. Here's one article about her: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/ada-lovelace.html but if you Google...
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If you write directly on a computer, you have all the formatting and editing tools that come with a word processor right at your...
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Charles Babbage is known as the father of computing. In 1822, while at the Cambridge University in UK, Charles Babbage was...
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To suit the Customers interests like.. filing for a business man or media for a person that takes video and pictures
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The digital compact disc, now commonplace in stereos and computers, was invented in the late 1960s by James T. Russell. The...
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Each accumulator could do 5000 additions/subtractions per second and there were 20 accumulators that could operate simultaneously.
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There are many things that old computer can't do like editing movies and make it 3D.
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Well, this might suprise you. The first computer was actually originally envisioned in 1834 by Charles Babbage. It was not a...
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The stonehenge, some outsized sun-dials such as Indian Medicine Wheels ( which were and have been adapted to cemetery use, often...
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it is used to calculate arithmetic and logical operation
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I think it was the ENIAC The first "electronic computer" was the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, or ABC. This machine wasn't...
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01101101011010010110101101100101 Assuming you are using ASCII encoding, using 8-bit characters on a Big Endian computer...
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His biggest difficulty was his own problems in getting along with others that he needed to help the project. Just being able to...
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AnswerAccording to me what I think is you can copy this below given Link in Address bar to know more about ENIAC (world's first...
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It depends. The very first computer, the HUAC, probably costed millions of dollars. The first personal home computer was around...
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Basically the task were performed in three ways. Either manually which obviously took forever. In Asia, the abacus ruled. In...
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Englishman Alan Turing the "Father of modern computer science" provided an influential formalisation of the concept of the...
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AnswerIn order for anything to show up in the computers "History" the items would actually have to have been page-viewed, meaning...
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