COMPSCI 1BA3 Lecture Notes - Eniac, Magnetic Storage, General Idea
15 Jan 2013
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Homunculus a very small man; midget or dwarf, maggot mistaken for a small person by monks. Anthropomorphism referring to something inhuman as human. Automaton independent; acting of one"s self; run"s itself. Vaucanson"s mechanical duck; the duck was able to eat, splash, quack and eliminate food; could do what a duck could do. 1576 1626 de caus: mechanism to control both the playing of an organ and the movements of model figures. 1621 slide rule ; a precursor to the electronic calculator: william oughtred invented the slide rule by using john napier"s invention napier"s. 1822 charles babbage; the difference engine: wasn"t able to create a working version, mill = processor or cpu and store = memory. 1834 charles babbage; the analytical engine: wasn"t completed its design embodies many of the concepts that define the modern computer, including memory, a programmable processor, an output device, and user- definable input of programs and data.
