Today.
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24 Sep 2007, 13:41
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Journals
So today we are starting on a task where we have to make a big timebar. This timebar contains a lot of stuff about computers, when the first computer were made and stuff. And how they functioned, who was the inventor, were they functional. And now I need the help of all you people!
I'm hungry and I have no money, gimmeh.
I'm hungry and I have no money, gimmeh.
However, none of those devices fit the modern definition of a computer because they could not be programmed. In 1801, Joseph Marie Jacquard made an improvement to the textile loom that used a series of punched paper cards as a template to allow his loom to weave intricate patterns automatically. The resulting Jacquard loom was an important step in the development of computers because the use of punched cards to define woven patterns can be viewed as an early, albeit limited, form of programmability.
In 1837, Charles Babbage was the first to conceptualize and design a fully programmable mechanical computer that he called "The Analytical Engine".[3] Due to limited finance, and an inability to resist tinkering with the design, Babbage never actually built his Analytical Engine.
I learned something from that too. :P