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Early Computers
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Charles Babbage: Analytical Engine 1837
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First Fully-automatic Calculating Machine
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A small section of the type of mechanism employed in Babbage's Difference Engine. (IEEE 2002 in Kopplin 2002)
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Konrad Zuse The Z1, was built between 1936 and 1938 in his parents sitting room (Kopplin 2002)
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ENIAC (1946) was built and used for military purposes by the US Army during the Second World War
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ENIAC: 167 square meters of floor space
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Originally, it was hoped that computers would replace the need for women in the workplace. The women ended up running them!
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Women were also the programmers
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UNIVAC
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ILLIAC II - University of Illinois
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Image References Goldstine, Herman H. (1972) ENIAC. Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIACHttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC Accessed 25 April 2012 Science Museum Group.(2012) Babbage's Analytical Engine. http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/computing_and_dat a_processing/1878-3.aspxhttp://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/computing_and_dat a_processing/1878-3.aspx Accessed 25 April 2012
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