~Computing Through the Ages~

"That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything and they don't drink all your beer," (Paul Leary).
From the Abacus (16th century counting devise) to the laptop, auto computing has always been a desire for us humans. We are lazy, and we like to take the easy way out of problem solving. This is why we pay so much for someone, or something to do the work for us. Hence the computer.
We're going to start with the use of electricity in computing, before then many non electric devises were used, but none capable of what we started using in the 1940's. But we must remember that no computer ever is better at problem solving then the human brain. The human brain is up to one million times better than our most capable of computers. Ok, back to when the modern computer was taking shape. It was during the war and we needed a place to store information, and a way to do it. Tests were being made on a way to "keep......

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