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The Evolution Of The Computer (PHOTOS)

  First Posted: 12/09/11 10:01 BST   Updated: 09/11/11 10:12 GMT

Computers. They're tiny, and they're everywhere and now even dogs can used them. But that wasn't always the case. These ever-shrinking machines used to take up whole rooms, nay, whole buildings. Let's take a stroll through history and a look at the evolution of our friends, the computers.

1946: The ENIAC
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The computer ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) developed at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946. Considered by some the first electronic computer
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Computers. They're tiny, and they're everywhere and now even dogs can used them. But that wasn't always the case. These ever-shrinking machines used to take up whole rooms, nay, whole buildings. Let's...
Computers. They're tiny, and they're everywhere and now even dogs can used them. But that wasn't always the case. These ever-shrinking machines used to take up whole rooms, nay, whole buildings. Let's...
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05:51 PM on 09/23/2011
What, no mention of Leibniz's Stepped Reckoner, the first mechanical calculator? If you're going to catalog the history of computers, you really should start at the beginning. After all, we've come a long way since 1672.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepped_Reckoner
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