HISTORY OF COMPUTER

Long ago before the birth of computer and internet. Humans were striving to simplify calculations.


The first computers were human e.g human clerks (computors) that performed computations.

The history may stated as it is below:

The history of computer system is categorized into two. They are:

1. The Non-Scientific and

2. The Scientific History of Computer system.

a) The non-Scientific History of Computer system deals with the Natural things that people use before the existence of computer. E.g. stones, stick. E.t.c. This led to the birth of Abacus which was originated in Babylon. Initially Abacus's origin was attributed to China. But the oldest surviving abacus was used in Babylon. Abacus is still in use today,majorly in the Eastern countries in the world e.g China

Advantages(merits)and Disadvantages(demerits) of Abacus

Working on addition and subtraction is fast and similar to that of the modern handy calculator with a skilled user.

It demerit is that Multiplication and division is damn slow.

b) Scientific history deals with the formulation and existence of computer system.

This aspect of the history deals with the inventions of computer fathers e.g John Napier, Blaise Pascal e.t.c