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An Important
Person in Computer History:
In this paragraph I want you to talk about who this person
was and what was his/her major computer accomplishment. Charles Babbage is often
considered the inventor of the computer.
In the late 1800s, Babbage developed plans for a device called the
Analytical Engine.
In this paragraph I want you to discuss how this was
important to the evolution of computers. Although
this machine was never completed and therefore never worked, it laid the
foundation for modern day computers. It had a set of input devices to feed
numbers and instructions into it, an arithmetic unit to perform calculations, a
control unit, memory where information could be stored, and an output device.
This machine was the beginning of programmable computers.
In this paragraph, explain how the world might have been different without this person's contribution. Without the invention of Charles Babbage, it is possible that we may never have had small personal computers. We would not have email, internet, word processing, games, and lots of other programs that we use everyday. Everything would be much more complicated and take longer amounts of time.