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RedbeardThe computer was first as big as a living room. It could only type and print 2 documents. Then, it got smaller and smaller and...
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In the year 1936, The Turing machine was developed featuring computability and was considered a universal machine. I do not...
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John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry invented the first electronic-digital computer at Iowa State University between 1939 and 1942....
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there are more than 1000000000000000 email websites in the world wide web
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Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
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International Business Machines introduced the IBM PC in 1982, however there were home type minicomputers that proceeded it. The...
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abacus slide rule Pascaline the Stepped Reckoner the analytical engine typewriter tabulating machine
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Windows 7 was invented by Maiga Lee
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen created Microsoft Corporation that create DOS (Disk Operating System) for PCs and the rest... So I...
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Bill Clinton was the first United States president to send an e-mail message. He sent it in March of 1993. This informatin was...
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Think of the communication stream like a single laned road (serial) and a highway (parallel). Although the data is going in one...
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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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Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer.
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Supercomputer, to classify as such a system must have at least 10 times the performance of the highest performance conventional...
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Arithmetic Logic Unit Control Unit Memory Unit Input/Output Unit(s)
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You can google his name and find lots of resources.
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Try Wikipedia! It's crackin' that is cha!
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if your wifi is not working reinstall the proper compatible drivers or recover your comp or reinstall the os! If it is a hardware...
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Origins of early computers begin with Abacus invented by Chineese.
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The Princeton University Computer was a John Von Neumann computer designed in their Institute for Advanced Study around...
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The first mass-produced mechanical calculator was made by Charles Xavier Thomas, around 1920. The first mass-produced electronic...
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"Computers" have been around for a very, very long time. But the definition of what makes something a computer has changed a...
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The quick and easy answer is because they allow for higher quality video and sound. For the more complex answer, I refer you to...
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marina neumann is the one that most say created the first computer in 1830
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1. Desktop, the kind that, well, sit on a desk and do whatever you need it to do 2. Notebook/Laptop, the portable computer that...
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The Basic Elements of a Computer:Hardware - Compose of the physical components. The tangible parts of a computer. ex. power...
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Mainframe is used in business where the data to be processed is too huge and has to be processed too many times and may require...
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The DECSystem-20 was a mainframe with a 36 bit word and core memory.
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In the 1950s after binary was started to build operating systems and fun. Although many people didnt have a computer in their...
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Speed, accuracy, storage, versatility, automation, diligence, reliabilty, convenience, flexibility.business
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AnswerJohn Vincent Atanasoff (ataˈnasɔf) (October 4, 1903 - June 15, 1995) was the inventor of the computer. See "Atanasoff,...
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A key board is laid out the same as a typer writer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY ...
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Herman Hollerith is the founder of The Tabulating Machine Company in 1896 which later became the International Business Machine...
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The laptop was designed to make a personal computer easily portable. The first portable computer was the GriD Compass (weighing...
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The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) developed by ARPA of the U.S. Department of Defense was the world's first...
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Charles Babbage made several plans to completing the computer in London. Babbage was born in London in 1791 and spent most of his...
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There is no such thing as a Pentium 5. That would be a type of processor, except that Intel stopped naming them Pentium before...
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Any Apple Computer is going to be the best. In a comparison between Dell and Apple. Dell is like a Hyundai and Apple is like a...
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The earliest computer known is the Antikythera Machine, a mechanical device that computed the positions of the astrological signs...
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Due to the huge number of heat-generating semiconductors and other components, mid '60s computers were kept in a VERY cool room...
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it stands for visual display unit. In other words its a computer monitor. it stands for visual isplay unit
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i think it might have been an oblique.
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Z1, it was mechanical (including memory), but it did floating point arithmetic. Electronic computers were later.
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IBM's System/360 was a family of computers, with model numbers that included models /20, /25, /30, /40, /50, /65, /67 and /95...
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HP began in a garage in Palo Alto, California, United States. After Disney bought a large batch of HP's first product (the first...
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It was Proffeser John Vincent Atansoff. He developed it in 1939. It was invented in the Iowa State University. sorry i don't...
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AnswerComputers in the 1960s were huge, heavy machines that took up entire rooms in air-conditioned buildings. (Think of a...
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Four stages in development of computer are believed to have emerged yet: 1 The first generation(1946-1958)-The era of vacuum...
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I did a little research and found the first personal computer was called, "Simon" (not to be confused with the popular game). It...
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Computer Organization is the study of internal parts of computer, how computer is created, what makes a computer, etc. Its a...
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a computer is an electronic and thinking machine that helps in many daily duties and has many functions.Computers can be a Dell...
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Stephanie Kwolek the discoverer of Kevlar. Which is a replacement for steel in racing car types etc. Ada Lovelace (1815-1852),...
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Which standard format? There has got to be over 10,000 of them.
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as per my knowledge bill gates&one of his friend had developed this garaphical user interface in dos mode
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a group of loosely coupled computers that work together closely
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The focus is on smart-phones, as these tend to be a good representation of how much processing power we can fit into a small...
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Some believe the first such invention occurred in 1944. However, there is strong evidence that the Atanasoff-Berry computer was...
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The Altair 8800, from Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems (MITS) of Albuquerque, NM, was first featured in the January 1975...
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I do belive it was created by John Louis von Neumann Leigh.
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The BIOS (basic input output system) provides the processor with the information required to boot the system from a non volatile...
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1940s to 1958: vacuum tube computers, primary I/O magnetic tape or punched cards.
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1946: The Eniac Computer is Unveiled ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator) was originally developed during Word...
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Homer Simpson created computers
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so it doesnt overheat and d3stroy itself
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AnswerThere are FIVE generations of computers.the first generation of computers were made of vacuum tubes and they were big as a...
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Depends on what you consider a 'computer. In the early '70s (72, 73 or thereabouts) Texas Instruments introduced there first...
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The first machine was abacus invented by the Chinese between 2400 BC and 300 BC. Charles Babbage was the first to conceptualize...
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Computers are available in different shapes, sizes and weights, due to these different shapes and sizes they perform different...
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When the phrase 'killer app' was coined, it refered to finding the next killer app. It considered the previous killer app to be...
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According to Wikipedia, "the first pressed DVD was the movie Twister in 1996." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvd#History)
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the person that invented the PC was in fact Misha Shatokhin.
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I'm not sure exactly how the web was created, but you might want to try going to www.greatachievements.org for some help. I hope...
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Brittney Miles in 1976, also wrote answers for dummies, and Started 3 Ron Weasley fan clubs
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Charles Babbage invented the Analytical Engine.
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What are the two areas of data processing?
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One or more computers with common software and storage.
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Yes they were the calculators of the past. A few people still use them today.
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The former answer before his death Steve Jobs, was worth 8.3 Billion in 2011
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Charles Babbage was born on December 26, 1791.
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neither will mine it downloads it then says i cant open it on this mac?
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A vulnerability is a weak point in a system. This implies a risk, especially to confidential information.An exploit is a means of...
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This would have to be Ada Augusta Countess of Lovelace's code written in the appendix of her translation to English of an Italian...
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I believe it was called the enac. It was built by Harvard students and used during world war II to plan air strikes. or so that...
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DARPA, but you connected through a special minicomputer they provided called an IMP. It wasn't called the internet then, it was...
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Computers evolve drastically fast. Every year there are lots of new technology that arises and makes the older technology to...
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AnswerAll over the place. This is the most god awefull application that has ever been created. It infiltrates every area of the...
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it was invented in the 17th century by a frenchman called Blaise Pascal It went through several changes after that in the...
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Obviously, "qwerty" is the first six letters on the regular American keyboard. It's easy to type, but I odn't know if "qwerty"...
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