Glance history of computer
Unquestionable computer have been use and dig in many different aspect of human life. Lets have a look glance history of computer till we known right now.
Of course the world itself have changed, and its also causing different development of technology. And as we all know technology these days are more familiar with computer as its basic power and brain. At the first development computer was use as scientific investigation, but lately its used as military advanced technology during world war II.
Before we go deep with the history lets classified computer by its type.
1. Manual equipment
This might be the most simple equipment using computer as its basis, why because data processing are using man power directly.
2. Mechanical equipment
which are mechanical equipment that being used by people and generated manually by people them self.
3. Mechanical Electronic
This would be more advance technology which using mechanical equipment that generated automatically by electronic or motor.
4. Electronic Equipment.
This equipment fully control and generated by electronic and using electric as its power.
Before the usage of computer some manual counting equipment such as abacus, numerical wheel calculator, and mechanical calculator being use for daily operation those days.
Then after 1940, the rise of technology began to strike the earth, starting from ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator), EDVAC Computer (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer), EDSAC COMPUTER ( Electonic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator). This first generation are pretty big of course it could be seen from the size and the usage of vacuum tube.
Influence from the first generation, transistor are being use to change the usage of vacuum tube, in these second generation, IBM name are became popular for its invention call LARC. Programming language as software development are quite popular during these year, such as COBOL, and FORTRAN.
The next generation of course the simplify transistor into smaller component, which is call as integrated circuit (IC). Here computer size are much more smaller. At these generation operating system also introduced.
As you could guest the fourth generation is the advanced of the latest. Ultra-Large Scale Integration (ULSI) being introduced to replace IC, it could store numbers of IC into one simple device or also famous as microprocessor.
These history of computer technology are a good thesis statement example, its a material that would last, and of course looking at its impact on human life and its purposes.
And now as we all could see the size of computer have evolved into smaller device with high speed connection and accessibility. Lets hope these technology would evolving for better tomorrow.