Important Computer Knowledge – Development of Computer

• Father of the Computer – Charles Babbage.
  Father of the Modern Computer – Alan Turing.
  The first computer for the home user introduced – IBM in 1981.
  Basic Architecture of Computer: John Von Neumann (1947-49).
  First Programmer: Lady Ada Lovelace (1880).
  First Electronic Computer: ENIAC (1946) – J.P. Eckert & J.W. Mauchly.

Full form of Computer:

• * C       –          Commonly
  * O       –          Operated
  * M      –          Machine
  * P       –          Particularly
  * U       –          Used for
  * T       –          Technical
  * E       –          Education
  * R       –          Research

Abacus

Abacus is known to be the first mechanical calculating device.

Which was used to be performed addition and subtraction easily and speedily.

Abacus is made up of the wooden frame in which rod where fitted across with rounds beads sliding on the rod.

Pascal Calculator

In the year 1642, Blaise Pascal a French scientist invented the adding machine called Pascal’s calculator, which represents the position of the digit with the help of gears in it.

Analytical Engine

A scientist from England knows to be Charles Babbage invented such the machine.

This device is known as Analytical engine and it is the first mechanical computer.

It includes such feature which we use in today’s computer language.

For this great invention of the computer, Sir Charles Babbage is also known as the father of the computer.