Wednesday, February 9, 2011

week 1



1.  It would calculate tables and would also print out the answer so there wouldn’t be any errors, the analytical engine is also reprogrammable by using punch cards.
2.  She was called the first computer programmer, and an interpreter for the analytical engin
3.  By people disconnecting weirs and reattaching them in different order to do different task
4.  The use of 18,000 vacuum tubes to help the ENIAC perform faster
5.  They used binary system because it was the simplest form, on or off which the numbers goes from zeros and ones
6.  UNIVAC was shown in television and gave much publicity by trying to predict the 1952 elections.  After its debut it starts becomes more popular over the years.
7.  Lorenz was there to crack the natzi codes but was too slow and so they build the colossus
8.  He called them the universal machine
9.  I was ten years old when I first started using a home computer and used the computer for entertainment purposes by playing games and used little of that time to use it for school work.  At that time the internet was just coming in and so I was using the internet to use as another form of entertainment and also able to chat people from greater distance. 
10.  A personal computer are very restricted in terms of what they can do, if they weren’t restricted the limit of what a computer can do is limitless.  They are mostly used for basic home uses such as emails, computer games, entertainment. Etc.  If the computer weren’t restricted they can be programmers artificial inelegance and even be able to program operating system.

10) How restricted do you think computers are in terms of what they can do compared to how they are most often used?

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