Thursday, June 26, 2008

Learnings of the Week (Anna Lea Cacayorin)

During this week, we have discussed about the electromechanical to electronic age of computers and its first to fourth generation. During the electromechanical period where the discovery of ways to harness electricity was the key for the computer to be more advanced than the computers before this stage is very amazing. Through the electromechanical period, there were many discoveries which helped the human civilization that time on their work especially counting and calculating large numbers.

The persons who had contributed some ideas for the improvement of computers and other technology were very perseverant enough for them to invent new technology. Electromechanical period was the start of telecommunications such as the discovery of voltaic battery by Alessandro Volta, the telegraph by Samuel Finley-Breeze Moose, and the telephone and radio by Alexander Graham Bell and Guglielmo Marconi.

The tabulating machine, comptometer, comptograph, punched cards were also discovered during that time. On the electronic period, the computers were improved through different programs attached to it.

On the first generation of computers was the start of using instruments such as the transistor, punched cards and etcetera to help enhance the quality of the computer functions during that time. While during the fourth generation of computers was the stage where the computers had been installed a very high frequency made such as the microprocessor that helped the access of computer faster than the past models of computers.

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