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The document summarizes the evolution of computers from early calculating devices like the abacus and Pascaline through the development of mainframe computers and microprocessors to modern systems. It traces the transition from mechanical to electromechanical to electronic digital computers and highlights some of the major innovations and computers along the way, including the ABC, UNIVAC I, IBM 701, and the development of integrated circuits and microprocessors that defined generations of computers.

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Steve Evolution of Computer

The document summarizes the evolution of computers from early calculating devices like the abacus and Pascaline through the development of mainframe computers and microprocessors to modern systems. It traces the transition from mechanical to electromechanical to electronic digital computers and highlights some of the major innovations and computers along the way, including the ABC, UNIVAC I, IBM 701, and the development of integrated circuits and microprocessors that defined generations of computers.

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Abacus (prior to 1500s)

THE EVOLUTION OF COMPUTER


- It is used to show how
numbers, letters, and
signs can be stored in a
Calculating Clock binary system on a
(1623) Computer, or using an
Schickard created a ASCII number. The
calculator in 1623; it device consists of a
was known as the series of beads on
Speeding Clock or parallel wires that are
Calculating Clock by Pascaline (1642) Blaise Pascal
his contemporaries. It (1623–1662)
came out twenty years -Pascaline, also called Arithmetic
before the less Machine, the first calculator or
adaptable Stepped adding machine to be produced in
Reckoner of Leibniz any quantity and actually used.
Hollerith Tabulating
Machine (1884)
Herman Hollerith (1860–
1929)
Herman Hollerith's tabulator
consisted of electrically-
operated components that
captured and processed
census data by "reading"
holes on paper punch cards.
Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
(1937-1942) UNIVAC (1951)
John Atanasoff (1904–1995) and John Mauchly (1907–1980)
Clifford Edward Berry (1918 -1963) and J. Presper Eckert (1929–
1995)
The Atanasoff–Berry computer was the first
The UNIVAC I was the first general-
automatic electronic digital computer. Limited by
purpose electronic digital computer
the technology of the day, and execution, the design for business application
device has remained somewhat obscure. produced in the United States.
Second Generation of IBM701 Defense Calculator (1952)
computer (1956 to 1963) IBM Company

The second-generation The IBM 701 Electronic Data


computers were used during Processing Machine, known as the
1957-1963. They are also Defense Calculator while in
development, was IBM’s first
known as transistor computers.
commercial scientific computer and
The second generation of
its first series production mainframe
computers consists of two computer, which was announced to
types of devices, transistors, the public on May 21, 1952.
and magnetic core.

Fourth Generation of computers was between


1971 – 1980.
PRESE These computers used the VLSI technology or
NT the Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits
technology. Therefore, they were also known as
the microprocessors. Intel was the first
company to develop a microprocessor.

The third-generation computer was started in 1965 and ended The Fifth-Generation computers are defined as the computers which will be
around 1971. Third generation computers start using integrated used predominantly in 1990s. Supercomputers will be used in scientific and
circuits instead of transistors. The integrated circuit (IC) is a engineering calculations and simulations. Database machines and present
semiconductor material, that contains thousands of transistors mainframe computers will be networked in order to organize worldwide

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