The history of computers can basically be broken down into seven time frames beginning with the Mechanical Era and continuing through the Sixth Generation Computers. In the following paper I will attempt to lay out in a logical sequence the events and inventions that take us through the above segments in time. Thus, showing the evolution and history of the computer.

The first segment in time ranging from 1623 through 1945 is known as The Mechanical Era. We can trace back at least to the early 17th century when mathematicians such as Wilhelm Schickhard, Blaise Pascal, and Gottfried Leibnitz designed machines that could solve mathematical problems such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Those computing machines were the very first calculators. In 1623 Wilhelm Sc

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