modern personal
computers (PCs).
Modern computers based
on integrated circuits are
millions to billions of times
more capable than the early
machines, and occupy a
fraction of the
space. Computers are small
enough to fit into mobile
devices, and mobile
computers can be powered by
small batteries. Personal
computers in their various
forms are icons of
the Information Age and are
generally considered as
"computers". However,
the embedded computers found
in many devices from MP3
players to fighter aircraftand
from electronic toys
to industrial robots are the most
numerous.
haue read the truest computer
of Times, and the best
Arithmetician that euer
breathed, and he reduceth thy
dayes into a short number." It
referred to a person who
carried out calculations, or
computations. The word
continued with the same
meaning until the middle of the
20th century. From the end of
the 19th century the word
began to take on its more
familiar meaning, a machine
that carries out computations.
HOW SHOES WERE
INVENTED
The first known use of the
word "computer" was in 1613
in a book called The Yong
Mans Gleanings by English
writer Richard Braithwait: "I
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