Computer In The World

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out to other countries or companies. Since a small diskette can contain much more data than a written page, and it takes less place, I think it will not be too long all the paper-archives are replaced by magnetic tapes and diskettes. It is possible to get the American telephone book on just one diskette.
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
About two hundred years before, the word “computer” started to appear in the dictionary. Some people even did not know what is a computer. However, most of the people today not just knowing what is a computer, but understand how to use a computer. Now people may ask a question “where is computer originated from? Today’s complex computers are not really intelligent at all. The intelligence is in the people who design them. Therefore, in order to understand the intelligence of computers, we must first take a look at the history of computers.
The predecessor to today’s computers was nothing like the machines we use today. It was the adding machine, invented by Blaise Pascal, a brilliant French mathematician and physicist. In 1642, Pascal decided to make his father’s job at a local tax office easier. The result was a simple mechanical adding machine. There were some improvements to the adding machine over the years, but it was not until English mathematics professor, Charles Babbage created a computer-like machine, Analytical Engine; designed in 1834. It was a remarkable device for its time. In fact, the Analytical Engine required so much power and would have been so much more complex than the manufacturing methods of the time, it could never be built. No more than twenty years after Babbage’s death, Herman Hollerith, an American inventor designed an electromechanical machine that used punched cards to tabulate the 1890 U.S. Census. His tabulation machine was so successful; he formed IBM to supply them. The computers of those times worked with gears and mechanical computation.
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