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What is life without computer?
Life without computers would be so pathetic. It would be so difficult to spend a life without computers. We would not be aware of technology or what things are being discovered. We could get information by newspaper, television, radio or some other medium but on computers we can get it in detail.
What was before laptops?
1973. The year that IBM created a prototype called the SCAMP, or Special Computer, APL Machine Portable. The machine is the first portable computer as you might recognize them today and led to the creation of the IBM 5100.
What did people use the first computer for?
calculations
Early computers were meant to be used only for calculations. Simple manual instruments like the abacus have aided people in doing calculations since ancient times. Early in the Industrial Revolution, some mechanical devices were built to automate long tedious tasks, such as guiding patterns for looms.
What was before the Internet?
Without ARPA, the internet wouldn’t exist. The first workable prototype for the Internet arrived in the 1960s – known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). The ARPANET system was quite different from the World Wide Web we know today.
Can you live without a computer for one week?
Most individuals could live without their computers, but life would be difficult, at best. You’d also have to do without your big-screen TV (a computer), your cable or satellite TV boxes (computers) and your car (which runs on a computer). You would most likely survive, though.
When was the first computer used?
Started in 1943, the ENIAC computing system was built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania. Because of its electronic, as opposed to electromechanical, technology, it is over 1,000 times faster than any previous computer.
What did people do before they had computers?
Before Computers 1 Adding machines and calculators. This is a big adding machine which can create columns of numbers and dates. 2 Punched Card Equipment. Herman Hollerith invented punched card data processing for the Census of 1890. 3 Analog Computers. Some electronic computers used analog voltage levels instead of binary numbers.
Who was the first person to make a computer?
As a teen, I find it hard to believe. Students type away at the computer lab in Nehru Memorial College in Tiruchi, India. About 400 years ago, a guy named Wilhelm Schickard made the world’s first computer. It was bulky machine that looked like an oversize typewriter, and it could add and subtract six-digit numbers.
What was the printing industry like before computers?
The printing industry was already in a major transition from letterpress with “hot” metal type to offset lithography and photographic “cold” type when computers came along and hijacked the revolution.