The History of Computers: From Past to Present

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This in-depth paper details the rich history of computers while focusing on 1940 which saw the first color TV broadcast, opening a new realm of visual development in the evolution of computers as well as Bell Laboratories who developed the first terminal. This paper contains a plethora of details and facts regarding the ongoing advancement in computers and technology. The writer of this paper delves into the differences between the machines of the past and the ones we use today. This paper also discusses one of the greatest promises of the next generation, the ability to develop artificial intelligence, also called AI.

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"The early 1900s saw a virtual boom in the development of computers. Many of these inventions were less the intellectual ancestors of the modern computer and more directly similar to our machines today. Of course the modern computer was dependent on many inventions that occurred outside of the literal realm of number processing. In 1926, the first semiconductor transistor patent was made. In 1936, John Dvorak developed the first keyboard - a user-friendly component which placed the most frequently-used keys on the inside and less frequently-used keys on the outside of the natural hand's reach."

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