Introduction To Computer

- Characteristics/Features of Computer

• Speed
• Accuracy
• Reliability
• Storage Capacity
• Word Length
• Diligence
• Versatile
• Automatic
• Electronic
• Non-intelligent

- Application Areas of Computer

• Education
• Communication
• Business
• Transportation
• Banking
• Helth
• Security
• Industry
• Scientific Research
• Entertainment
• Weather Forecasting
• Desktop Publishing
• Designing
• Satellite Controlling

- Aviation

• Capabilities & Limitations of Computer
• Advantages & disadvantages of Computer
• History of Computer

- Mechanical Age

• Abacus
• Stepped Reckoner (Leibniz Calculator)
• Napier Bone
• Difference Engine
• Slide Rule
• Analytical Engine
• Pascaline
• Tabulating Machine

- Electro Mechanical Age

• MARK-I [Also known as ASCC (Automated Sequence Controlled Calculator)
• MARK-II
• ABC (Atanasoft Berry Computer)

- Electric Age

• ENIAC
• EDAC
• EDVAC
• UNIVAC

Some Important Persons
o Joseph Jaquard
o Charles Babbage
o George Boole
o Herman Hollerith
o Lady Augusta Ada Lovelace