computer

     

A computer is a machine that manipulates ata according to a list of instructions.

Trivia about computer

  • Until 1946, this word usually meant a mathematician; since then, it's come to mean a machine
  • The Census Bureau bought its first electronic one of these in 1951, the UNIVAC
  • You might want to take this news sitting down: Radio Shack introduced the first laptop type of this in 1983
  • A variation of couch potato, a mouse potato is someone who spends a lot of time with this
  • In 2002 China unveiled its first homegrown "super" one of these, with 272 gigabytes of RAM
  • In 1982 Time magazine named this machine its "man of the year"
  • The Girl Scout badge seen here represents fun with this machine
  • ENIAC
  • Multislacking means playing with one of these instead of working
  • ENIAC, which weighed over 30 tons, was the first electronic one of these
  • A team headed by Seymour Cray introduced the first "super" one of these in 1963
  • In the U.S. Chess Open at Columbus, Ohio in 1977, one of these named "Sneaky Pete" played
  • Operating system,central processing unit,mouse
  • Originally an adding machine maker, in 1944 IBM made its first steps toward one of these with the Harvard Mark I
  • Type of machine referred to in the title of Tracy Kidder's nonfiction work "The Soul of a New Machine"
  • Hollerith cards, also called punch cards, helped operate these, such as the ENIAC, in the mid-20th century
  • In A.I.'s Turing Test, a person asks questions of 2 subjects & has to determine which one is not human but this
  • The differential analyzer Vannevar Bush invented at MIT is a forerunner of the modern one of these