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UNIT OF COMPETENCY
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MODULE DESCRIPTION
: This module covers the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values needed to perform computer
operations which include inputting, accessing, producing, and transferring data using the
appropriate hardware and software.
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: NC II
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ABACUS
The first mechanical calculating machine that was developed by Blaise Pascal in the early 1600s. This device
could add and subtract. Later Gottfried von Leibnitz developed a calculator that could also multiply and divide.
PASCALINE
AUTOMATED LOOM
DIFFERENCE ENGINE
ELECTROMECANICAL ENGINE
ELECTRONIC COMPUTER
This was invented by weaver Joseph Jacquered in LOOM the early 1800s that uses punched cards to record
data.
This is where modern computer history began. This machine was proposed by Charles Babbage in ENGINE
the 1800s which bears the resemble of todays computers which is capable of computing and at the same time
print results.
The American chapter of computer history began when Herman Hollerith successfully completed his tabulating
machine for the Census Bureau in 1890.
John Anatasoff is generally credited with building the first electronic computer as lowa State University.
Was developed by Howard Aiken with the help of IBM, is the first large-scale, general-purpose,
electromechanical computer. It was completed in 1994.
MARK I
This was the worlds first large-scale electronic digital computer which was developed by J. Presper Eckert and
John Mauchly in 1946. This computer is designed to calculate missile trajectories.
ENIAC
EDSAC and EDVAC
Was later developed by mathematician John von Neuman in the 1940s which runs in the concept of stored
programs.
This is the first commercial computer which was completed and delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau in 1951.
UNIVAC
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The term desktop computer originated when the computer case was wide and flat, and was designed specifically to fit on
your desktop with the monitor on top.
Laptop Computers
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There are many different types of servers such as file servers, database servers, and web servers. For example,
employees at a company might store all the business documents on a file server so that they can share files and access
then from any computer on the network. When you use your browser to click a link, a web server delivers the page you
requested on the Internet, the biggest network in the world.
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