The History of the Computer

THE HISTORY

OF THE COMPUTER

The Computer is a programmable electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process

data. It is widely used all over the world, and is used for everything from personal

computers, PCs, used at home to huge super computers that run goverments. Computers

work on a system called binary. Binary is many ones and zeros put together to form a

computer language. Binary is not only ones and zeros but can be represented by

anything. We could call them A and B, Bill and Jill, or anything else you could think of.

A computer uses binary to mean on or off. On the microchip of a computer there are

millions of small little objects called transistors.They direct the flow of electricty; the on

or off used in binary.

Inventing the computer