LEARNINGS OF THE WEEK (Camay)

This week, we discussed on the Electromechanical Age and the Electronic Age. We also talked about the four generations of computer.

The ways to harness electricity was discovered in the Electromechanical Age. Other discoveries include the telecommunication, the Voltaic Battery, the first battery made by Alessandro Volta; Telegraph and Telephone and Radio. The electronic telegraph was made by Samuel Finley-Breeze Morse and the telephone and radio were made by Alexander Graham Bell.

In Electromechanical computing, the Tabulating Machine was discovered in 1853, Comptometer in 1885, Comptograph in 1889 and Punched Cards in 1890. In the Electronic Age, the Z3 is built as the first progammable computer. The mark 1, as the first Stored Program Computer and the ABC as the first computer to use electricity in the form of vacuum tubes to make electric computation possible.In the first generation, vaccum tubes were used as main logic elements; punched cards and rotating magnetic drums.In second generation, transistors were used.In 3rd generation, IC or integrated circuits were used.Lastly in fourth generation, a chip called microprocessor was used.