... 's personal computers is rated at 3 Gigahertz, which means that these personal computers can process 3 billion bits of information per second. Are you impressed yet? Because it is an incredibly fast calculator the computer can do many amazing things. Computers can convert speech into typing or typing into speech and can translate one language into another. In a few years we will be ... ...

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... . Early merchants used the abacus to keep trading transactions. Then came Blaise Pascal with the Pascaline, a machine that could computer fast, but only add. Following him was Colmar with his calculator and ultimately, the first version of the modern computer as we know it today by Charles Babbage. From then began a race . A race for technology, a race that would give rise to ... ...

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... computer by 1946, when binary system was used and concept of pre-stored instructions as programs were introduced. This generation continued till 1959. In 1946 ENIAC (Electronic Numerical integrator And Calculator) was developed as a result of military need. It was too large to be kept as it took up all space in a 20x40 square feet room and used 19000 vacuum tubes ... ...

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