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... device that could accurately be called a com- puter , Charles Babbage , lived and worked well over a cen- tury ago . The machine that is generally thought to be the first modern computer was built during World War II , be- fore most ...
... device that could accurately be called a com- puter , Charles Babbage , lived and worked well over a cen- tury ago . The machine that is generally thought to be the first modern computer was built during World War II , be- fore most ...
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... device , in that it involved a moving part - this was fast . By the standards of a computing device it was slow . Solving an equation might require thousands of individual calcula- tions , and each calculation might involve opening or ...
... device , in that it involved a moving part - this was fast . By the standards of a computing device it was slow . Solving an equation might require thousands of individual calcula- tions , and each calculation might involve opening or ...
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... device for the press in a radio receiver . It could also be used as a switch . But unlike a tube the transistor ... devices , including com- puters . The second breakthrough ensured this result . One of the inventors of the transistor ...
... device for the press in a radio receiver . It could also be used as a switch . But unlike a tube the transistor ... devices , including com- puters . The second breakthrough ensured this result . One of the inventors of the transistor ...
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