Using a search engine locate a website that talks about the history of the computer. Read the site and write a 150 word summary of the information in that site. Also include if you think that the site gives you reliable information and if you would recommend someone doing research on computers to
use this site. In your response first provide the URL for that site, then your summary. For your reply to other students pick 2 students that have different sites and read their sites and then give one interesting fact that you learned from that site. Also tell them if you agree or disagree with their opinion on the site being reliable and why. The first comment under this post will be an example of a response, you CANNOT use the same website or reply to my Example.
Naomi
9/3/2013 10:47:43 am
http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr
Mason
10/17/2016 05:21:48 pm
http://homepage.cs.uri.edu/faculty/wolfe/book/Readings/Reading03.htm
Taylor
10/18/2016 04:19:34 pm
One interesting fact that I learned from your website was that the Silicon computer is still being used. I have never heard of that computer. But what I read on my website was that the first computer by apple was in 1984. Not sure what to think about that. Other than that I liked your comment, and it was very well worded and informed on the different computers.
Tanner
10/20/2016 07:00:41 pm
Mason one fact I learned about the history of computers was that they used vaccum tubes for the first types and they used one the size of a thumb. I also agree with what you said about the sites being reliable because i looked through a lot of websites and i saw that one quite a few times and it stood out to me.
Taylor
10/18/2016 04:11:35 pm
http://people.bu.edu/baws/brief%20computer%20history.html
Imigin
10/19/2016 01:05:20 pm
Taylor
Olivia
10/19/2016 04:21:41 pm
Taylor
Alyssa
10/19/2016 08:49:34 pm
Taylor I agree with why you think it's reliable. I used the same website and your right about how it is shorter. I think that this is a reliable website. I learned about how they were used for a military system and could only do a single basic task.
Danner
10/20/2016 07:02:42 pm
A lot of this information, I had in my website. I liked how it broke the information into generations though. I learned that Microsoft was born in 1980. I think your information was reliable but short like you said.
Heidi
10/21/2016 10:51:00 am
Taylor, I agree with you. I like how you said that its reliable, I used the same website. I also liked how it parted the information into generations. I learned how they were used for only do a single basic task and military systems.
Kelsey
10/18/2016 05:08:23 pm
http://www.explainthatstuff.com/historyofcomputers.html
Imigin
10/19/2016 01:08:45 pm
Kelsey
Olivia
10/19/2016 04:14:20 pm
Kelsey
Imigin Latham
10/19/2016 01:00:59 pm
(n.d.). Retrieved from http://cms.bsu.edu/academics/collegesanddepartments/technology/academics/bachprog/comptech.
Kelsey
10/19/2016 04:13:06 pm
I like what you said Imgin, but none of what you said really tells me about the history of computers. All it tells me is what computers are used for and also who mostly uses them.
Mason
10/19/2016 06:11:24 pm
Imigin, from what I had saw from both what you had posted and what the web site had posted they both did not tell me when the computer was made and how it had progressed thought out the years and who did what with it and what real type of impact it did for the world. But I did learn a bit more about what a computer does than what I had previously had know so kudos to you.
Gracie
10/20/2016 06:51:51 pm
Imigin I agree with your information. I like what you said about what its used for. Also, your information its helpful. You also said it smoothly.
Olivia
10/19/2016 04:00:08 pm
http://www.seattlecentral.edu/~ymoh/history_of_computer/history_of_computer.htm
Kelsey
10/19/2016 04:24:50 pm
Olivia, I liked the way your information goes in order from when the things happened and you didnt just jump around and I like how you think it is the most detailed because it is the most detailed one that I have read so far. Good Job Olivia!!!!
Mason
10/19/2016 06:00:14 pm
Olivia, what you said on here is something I can agree with such as when apple and radio shack went and created the most personal computer that they could make at the the time. And I did not know that the first technical computer was in 1642. And that high speed computers where mostly produced at 1942.
Alyssa
10/19/2016 08:42:26 pm
I agree with what you think about why the website is reliable. That information does sound familiar and the website seems like a reliable website. I learned about the punch cards and the numbers that were entered with dials. I didn't those facts.
Jaden Steele
10/21/2016 12:26:44 pm
I did not know that John P. Eckert and John W. Maucly mad a high speed electronic computer in 1942 because the begining of World War 2 made an increased need for computer capacity. Also that the first person that built a digital computer was Blaise Pascal.
Alyssa
10/19/2016 08:32:40 pm
http://people.bu.edu/baws/brief%20computer%20history.html
Alyssa
10/19/2016 08:37:34 pm
I think this website is reliable because it shows a timeline of the history and the author is good. The author got their information from reliable websites and the dates seem to match up with some other websites. I think this website is very reliable.
Tanner
10/20/2016 06:57:35 pm
Alyssa i completely agree with what you said about it being reliable because like you said it tells us about the history and the timeline of the computers and when they were made and who made it. One interesting fact was that you said the name of who made it and what the models were.
Brooke
10/20/2016 07:52:44 pm
I the way you summarized the article was good and I like it. One thing I learned from your website was that the first general purpose digital computer was the ENIAC, Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, and it weighs 30 tons and had 18,000 vacuum tubes. These “old fashion” computers had a lot of tubes.
Maddy
10/21/2016 04:18:51 pm
I learned from our website that there was an electric computer built in 1943 for the military. I agree with what you said about it being a reliable it had good info and it was nice that it showed you when all of the dates were.
Danner
10/19/2016 10:01:57 pm
http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventions/fl/The-History-of-Computers.htm
Gracie
10/20/2016 06:57:13 pm
Danner I like about what you said at the end and how you described them. Your information was good. It had more about computers then then some other websites I looked at.
Brooke
10/20/2016 07:42:34 pm
The website I looked at also had some of this information. One thing I did learn from you website was that the Tide-Predicting Machine was considered the first modern analog computer. I didn’t even know there was a computer called that. I also learned the man who made it was a Scotch-Irish mathematician, physicist and engineer, Sir William Thompson. I also agree with the information you stated.
Evan
10/21/2016 08:05:17 pm
One thing that I learned from your site was the binary numerical system, and that it was developed by a German philosopher and mathematician, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and that the system came around as way to represent decimal numbers using only two digits, zero, and one. I agree that the site is reliable and has good facts, because it's not a site that anybody can post on, like a blog.
Gracie
10/20/2016 06:35:05 pm
people.bu.edu/baws/brief%20computer%20history.html
Gracie
10/20/2016 06:43:59 pm
I though t that this website gave reliable information. I would recommend someone doing research on computers. It gives a lot of information about what computers liked like what they where used for.
Tanner
10/20/2016 06:51:24 pm
http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/
Maddy
10/21/2016 04:17:54 pm
I learned that one of the first computers called the Z3 was destroyed in a bombing in the late 1943. I don’t think that this isn’t a very good website because it is hard to find what you are looking for and a lot of it doesn’t make as much sense.
Jack Lyle
10/21/2016 11:51:58 pm
Tanner, I think that you should have given more information about different computers, and leaps that were made to benifit the computers, such as when the first 64bit operating system was built which can have much, much, much more RAM, or when the Magnetic Core memory was first made, and also when the first computer was built. and I do think that the website is reliable, but if you had more information I think It would have been better.
Anna
10/21/2016 11:56:25 pm
I thought that this was interesting Tanner, I learned that the computers that were made during 1940 and 1960s was called the 650 computer. I disagree with how you said that this site is relatable because it is very confusing and doesn’t hold a lot of true information to me.
Brooke
10/20/2016 07:11:40 pm
http://clas.mq.edu.au/speech/synthesis/history_computers/\
Danner
10/20/2016 07:16:21 pm
I liked the pictures that your site provided. I thought it was hard to read though. One thing I learned is that Curt Herzstark designed the Curta calculator. He made it in a concentration camp during World War II. I think it is reliable website because it has pictures to support the evidence.
Danner
10/20/2016 07:19:16 pm
This comment is for Tanner's information.
Evan
10/21/2016 06:01:32 am
http://people.bu.edu/baws/brief%20computer%20history.html
Jaden Steele
10/21/2016 12:01:59 pm
I think that it is cool how there was a computer that weighed thirty tons and it had to use eighteen vacuum tubes to work. Imagine how big that computer could of been. Also how much technology has improved through out the years. It has changed from a thirty ton computer with a bunch of tubes to a tiny cellphone that has much more stuff on it than that big computer would have.
Sydney
10/21/2016 10:04:25 pm
Evan, your website was very interesting. Like how the computer was put in generations, I never knew that till today. Also how the first computer weighed 30 tons!! Holy cow. I did know that it was digital, but that was because Maddy had something about that, but I really like your website and I think it is reliable also. 10/21/2016 11:56:29 am
The computer was made not just for entertainment or email. By 1880, the U.S. population had grown a lot so it took more than seven years. The government though of a faster way to get the job done, giving rise to punch-card based computers that took up entire rooms. Now we carry more smart technology on our smartphones than there was earlier in time. In 1822 an English mathematician Charles Babbage conceives of a steam-driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers. The project, funded by the English government, is a failure. More than a century later, however, the world’s first computer was actually built. In 1943 and 1944 two professors from the University of Pennsylvania, named John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert built the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC). Considered as the grandfather of digital computers, it fills a 20-foot by 40-foot room and has 18,000 vacuum tubes.
Sydney
10/21/2016 12:31:03 pm
http://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html
Sydney
10/21/2016 10:01:07 pm
I think this website is reliable because it is a livescience and it is a .com. They had very interesting things on there and they had all the important years of things that were invented to develop the computer today.
Maddy
10/21/2016 04:16:50 pm
http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventions/fl/The-History-of-Computers.htm
Sydney
10/21/2016 09:58:35 pm
One thing that I thought was interesting is that the first computer was considered a calculator. I think that is pretty cool how they said that and that it only used 2 digits, but then they later developed that to a computer that computed words and letters and punctuation.
Heidi
10/21/2016 11:19:11 pm
One thing that I thought was pretty cool was that you said that "I first attempt to build the first computer was very expensive, it was called the difference engine. It automatically printed the results out on to a table, it had to be hand cranked and the machine weighed 4 tons." I thought that was interesting because I have never heard of a hand cranking machine computer!
Heidi
10/21/2016 11:13:43 pm
http://people.bu.edu/baws/brief%20computer%20history.html
Anna
10/21/2016 11:50:50 pm
One of the thing that I though was cool about this site was how it was put into three generations. I also thought it was interesting how much the computers weighted. To me this site seems pretty promising.
Jack Lyle
10/21/2016 11:42:21 pm
The first computer was built by Blaise Pascal in 1642, with the help of his father, although it could only do calculations. the second computer was built by Herman Hollerith and James Powers in 1890, but it was just to punch cards. In World War 2 the Military needed a large need for computer capacity which was built by John W. Mauchly and their associates at Moore school of electrical Engineering of University of Pennsylvania, and the computer was called ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator) and it used 18,000 thousand vacuum tubes which took about 1800 square feet of floor space and consumed about 180,000 watts of electrical power. In the 50s two important engineering discoveries changed the image of electronic computers, These discoveries were the Magnetic core memory and the Transistor - Circuit Element, these technical discoveries quickly found their way into new models of digital computers. Also RAM increased from 8,000 to 64,000 words in commercially available machines.Many companies in the 1970's introduced computers that were very popular and successful, such as apple.
Jack Lyle
10/21/2016 11:43:35 pm
http://www.seattlecentral.edu/~ymoh/history_of_computer/history_of_computer.htm
Anna
10/21/2016 11:42:21 pm
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