A Very Brief History of Computers takes you from abacus to Charles Babbages, on to Herman Hollerith, to Apple, IBM, Bill Gates and Tim Berners Lee. It only concerns itself with the main steps.Eniac English Readers may find this helpful.
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Tower 6 Operating System is worth 30 marks in the examination.
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@Quandary92 I wanted to give some idea of a historical perspective without going into anyone but main computing people. It does say 'very' brief history!
JackBarnett21 10 months ago
While a good review, this is some what lacking in the mathematics behind the creation of the computer, stepping from an abacus to Babbage is equivalent to stepping from simple multiplication and division to second order differential equations. However, the information in it is accurate and well presented. Good.
Quandary92 10 months ago
@lkw1287 Thanks a lot. That's a great review.
JackBarnett21 1 year ago
Well done, enjoyed it.
lkw1287 1 year ago 2