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FROM THE HISTORY OF COMPUTER
The educated man of 200 years ago
did not need to know anything about science. The educated man of 25 — 30 years
ago did not need to know anything about computers. But the educated man of
today needs to have some significant knowledge of science and a little
significant knowledge about computers.
The computer is no doubt the most amazing achievement
of mankind. It is a date storage system created by man. A human tells the
machine what to do, when to do it and how it should be done.
The word
computer comes from a Latin word which means to count.
Nearly one hundred and fifty years ago there were no
such things as computers. Knotted ropes, marks in clay, the abacus are all
methods of keeping track of numbers.
In 1833 an English inventor and mathematician Charles
Babbage, professor of Cambridge
University designed the
first computer. The mathematical programme for his machine had been composed
by Lord Byron's daughter.
The first programmer computer which operated successfully
was built in 1939 by H. H. Aiken, professor of Har- ward University.
In our country the first electronic digital computer
MACM was constructed by the Ukrainian Academician S. O. Lebedev in 1950.
Such computers as BESM, Minsk, Ural, Razdan-3, M-20, M-220, Nairi-3,
Strela, Dniepr were created in our country.
Nowadays computers greatly increase man's thinking
capabilities of planning, analyzing, computing and controlling. Hundreds of
computers are already in daily use. They penetrate almost into all spheres of our
modern society, from nuclear energy production and missile design to the
processing of bank checks, weather forecasting, manufacturing, research and
medical diagnoses.
There are three kinds of computers: digital, analogue
and hybrid. An analogue computer computes by using physical analogue of
numerical measurements. A digital computer computes by using numbers or
digits. A hybrid computer is a machine which combines some of the properties
of digital and analogue computers.
Invention of electronic computers is one of the greatest achievements of
mankind. The significance of it can be compared with the invention of the
steam-engine and the utilization of atomic energy.