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Topic: First Computer

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 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite website(s):Slashdot
Most admires:Steve Jobs,  Bill Gates
Favorite possession(s):Apple Computer,  Windows computer,  Linux box
Currently has on their coffee table:Mac Today,  PC World
Favorite book(s):"Maximum Internet Security: A Hackers Guide" by Net Sams
Favorite great thinker(s):Alan Turing
Interest(s):Computers
Favorite computer game(s):Hacking,  PacMan,  Myst
Favorite online activity(s):Chatting on ICQ,  Downloading MP3's,  Finding warez
Favorite quote(s):"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
 
 
 Expert Talk
The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

We were the first local agency to use computers to simplify the reservation process and were a founding member of ATN, a consortium of the nation's largest commercial travel agencies.
Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

First, the software was developed to run and compile on either big endian or little endian computers and store all numeric data in little endian format.
Tony was the first in to develop and use the technique of modelling complex commercial systems using a standard package available on most office computers.
Because computers were first used for numerical calculations, early computer engineers developed a representation for numbers in terms of fixed-size chunks.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

The first configuration involved four computers and was designed to demonstrate the feasibility of building networks using computers dispersed over a wide area.
Mike Enlow,
Internet Marketer

Our first few days use of the software is confirming our belief that the greater accuracy generated by our computers will benefit you as parents in addition to saving us very valuable admin time.
Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student

Our first project was to set up the fourth and fifth grade classes with internet access on all the classroom computers.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

They were among the first to use computers in the area of photographic astrometry, and the accuracy of these techniques permitted Jefferys to make significant early contributions in determining proper motions for objects beyond our galaxy.
Computers were also provided in two clusters there making Rains the first graduate residence to have clusters.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

Its innovative Computers 4 Teachers program incorporated the use of donated computers and software with an effective course of introductory computer classes to provide hundreds of teachers with their first taste of computers.
This is the first version of Panorama that runs on Windows PC systems and the first version that is native on Power Macintosh computers.
This is also a surface mount design and was first used to make thin credit card modules for notebook computers.
 
 
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Charles babbage
2004-11-07 00:55:31
analytical parts
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Hannah Smoke
2005-04-22 14:50:23
What was the first computer ever?
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