Thursday, September 24, 2009

History Origins of the Computer

History Origins of the Computers First Generation. With the onset of the Second World War, the countries involved in the war trying to develop the potential of computers for strategic exploits owned computers. This increased funding to accelerate the development of computers and computer technical progress. In 1941, Konrad Zuse, a German engineer to build a computer, the Z3, to design airplanes and missiles.

Party allies also made other progress in the development of computer power. In 1943, the British completed a secret code-breaking computer called Colossus to decode secret German used. Impact of The Colossus's influenced the development of the computer industry because of two reasons. First, Colossus was not a multi-purpose computer (general-purpose computer), it was only designed to decode secret messages. Second, the existence of the machine was kept secret until decades after the war ended.

The work done by the Americans at that time produced some other progress. Howard H. Aiken (1900-1973), a Harvard engineer working with IBM, succeeded in producing electronic calculators for the U.S. Navy. The calculator is the long half-sized football field and has a range of 500 miles along the cable. The Harvd-IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, or Mark I, an electronic relay computer. He uses electromagnetic signals to move the mechanical components. Operation machine is slow (it takes 3-5 seconds for each calculation) and inflexible (order calculations can not be changed). The calculator can perform basic arithmetic calculations and more complex equations.

Another computer development at present is the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), which is made by the cooperation between the United States government and the University of Pennsylvania. Consisting of 18,000 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors and 5 million soldered joints, the computer is a machine that consumes huge power of 160kW.

This computer was designed by John Presper Eckert (1919-1995) dn John W. Mauchly (1907-1980), ENIAC is a versatile computer (general-purpose computer) that work 1000 times faster than Mark I.


In the mid 1940s, John von Neumann (1903-1957) joined the team of the University of Pennsylvania in developing the concept desin Usha computer until the next 40 years is still used in computer engineering. Von Neumann designed the Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC) in the year 1945 with sebuh memory to accommodate both programs or data.

This technique allows the computer to stop at some point and then resume her job back. The key element to the von Neumann architecture is the central processing unit (CPU), which allowed all computer functions to be coordinated through a single source. In 1951, UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I) are made by Remington Rand, became the first commercial computer to use the model of the von Neumann architecture.

Both the United States Census Bureau and General Electric have a UNIVAC. One of the impressive results achieved by the UNIVAC dalah success in predicting victory Dwilight D. Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election.

The first generation computers were characterized by the fact that operating instructions are made specifically for a particular task. Each computer has a binary-coded program is different so-called "machine language" (machine language). This causes the computer is difficult to be programmed and the speed limit. Another feature of the first generation computers was the use of vacuum tube (which makes the computer at that time were huge) dn magnetic cylinder for storage of data.

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