Thursday, October 30, 2008

Computers: from the past to the present

Can you answer about... ?

the device used in China as a calculating machine
the first mechanical calculator
the scientist considered the "father of computing"
the machine used by H. Hollerith in 1890 to read the US census
the computer developed by Konrad Zuse in 1941
the digital computer built by engineers at IBM and H. Aiken in 1950
the device designed by Alan Turing to perform logical operations
the giant machine which had more than 2,000 vacuum tubes
the company that designed the first microprocessor in 1971
the creators of Microsoft
the first computer with a graphical user interface and a mouse
the main uses of the Web and where it was developed

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