23-12-2017, 04:33 PM
Facts to Remember
*First calculating device in the world
Ans : Abacus
*Abacus was invented in
Ans : China
*Calculating tool Napier’s Bones was developed by John Napier
*First mechanical and automatic calculator
Ans : Pascaline
* First logarithmic table was introduced by
Ans : John Napier
*First data storage machine was invented by
Ans : Herman Holerith
*The first real mechanical calculating machine
Ans : Pascaline
*The person who invented Pascaline
Ans : Blasie Pascal (1642)
*First mechanical ’adding machine was invented by
Ans : Blaise Pascal
* The first successful difference Engine was made by
Ana : Charles Babbage
* First analytical engine was invented by Charles Babbage
*The first electronic digital computer
Ans : ENIAC
* ENIAC was developed by
Ans : John Mauchly and Presper Eckert
* First computer used in business (commercial) applications
Ans : UNIVAC - 1
*First complete & fully operational regular electronic digital stored program computer is
Ans : EDSAC (6th May 1949) (EDVAG conceived in 1945, but not delivered until August 1949)
*First stored program computer designed was
Ans : EDVAC
*The first computer animated news reader
Ans : ANANOVA (Russia)
*The first personl computer
Ans : Altair 8800
*First book about personal computer
Ans : Computer liberation and Dream machine (written by: Ted Nelson)
*The first computer graphics used movie
Ans : TRON (1982)
*The first film which used the morphing
Ans : Willow
*First Digital computer
Ans : Harvard Mark 1 (Howard Aiken)
*The first computer game
Ans : Space-war
*The first E paper
Ans : The Thejith (from Belgium)
*The first computer magazine
Ans : Computers & Automation (Edmund Berkely, 1950)
