CSC104H1 Lecture 3: Lecture Week 3.docx
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About the history and culture of computing. *look at the longer notes and the links. All machines before this time period represented numbers by marks on clays, beads all things that can change and be captured by the human eye. All machines before this time required a lot of human coordination. There was a huge world event that the governments would spend money on research against computers, this even was ww2. Computers would be useful during war times by cracking codes and also for artillery- to see where the projectiles would land. Information could be stored in something microscopic (the atanosoff- The smartest operators were woman, they were able to juggle many ideas in their head they had to connect various pins to other electronic pins (programming) and their data was stored on paper. You could count on 2 hands in the early 40"s the number of computers in the world at this time.
