Difference between revisions of "CSC103: DT's Notes 1"
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One can argue that if von Neumann hadn't written this report, we may have followed somebody else's brilliant idea for putting together a machine working with electricity, where information is stored and operated on in binary form. | One can argue that if von Neumann hadn't written this report, we may have followed somebody else's brilliant idea for putting together a machine working with electricity, where information is stored and operated on in binary form. | ||
| − | For computers were not always electrical machines. Initially they were mechanical machines. The abacus, | + | [[Image:Antikythera.jpg|right|200px]]For computers were not always electrical machines. Initially they were mechanical machines. The abacus, which appeared several millennia B.C. was a counting machine made of wood. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism Antikythera] mechanism, currently regarded as the first mechanical machine for computing astronomical calculations. |
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