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Read Only Memory Vacuum Tube
1,115 words... and and held on magnetic drums, disk packs, or tapes. After they are solved, the results are displayed or printed. The problem is then deleted, or "dumped" to make room for the next problem. With all of these new advances, the computer was becoming easier to use. Also, with the new ferrite coils and other smaller parts, the computer was shrinking very much. Soon they would be affordable and small enough for every household to have one. This all became possible with two simple inventions: The...
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Large Scale Integration Integrated Circuits
512 wordsIn the third generation one of the key components was the development of the integrated circuit. An integrated circuit is the idea of putting many transistors on one single chip of silicon. Integrated circuits were essentially a step up from vacuum tubes. They are much more reliable, save more energy, and are more powerful than the vacuum tubes. Integrated circuits were invented by Jack St. Clair Kirby and Robert Noyce in 1958. One of the most exiting parts of integrated circuits was that they w...
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Ten Years 10 Years
915 wordsThe computers of the future are expected to be smaller, faster and smarter. For the past 20 years, CPU performance has doubled about every 18 months. The PowerPC will stay close to this pace for the next 10 years -- a nearly 100 -fold improvement in that time. The storage capacities of hard drives will continue to expand, they are currently growing at a rate of about 60 percent per year. Today, Intel's Pentium II has 7. 5 million transistors. If the trend continues, Intel processors should conta...
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Large Scale Integration Read Only Memory
1,859 wordsA common misconception about computers is that they are smarter than humans. Actually, the degree of a computers intelligence depends on the speed of its ignorance. Todays complex computers are not really intelligent at all. The intelligence is in the people who design them. Therefore, in order to understand the intelligence of computers, one must first look at the history of computers, the way computers handle information, and, finally, the methods of programming the machines. The predecessor t...
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Competition Among Processor Makers Amd And Intel
1,199 wordsIt is hard to imagine that there is any other processor than Intel. There is a processor called AMD (advanced micro devices) currently leading in the silicon race for the fastest processor at an affordable price. No longer shall Intel lead the market when AMD makes its name superior. A CPU is a microprocessor that is generally constructed with millions of tiny switches called transistors that are imbedded in silicon. The outer shell is ceramic with gold pins protruding out of the processor to ma...
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20 Th Century Vacuum Tubes
1,004 wordsMilitary equipment, toys, communication, home electronics, computing, cars, satellites and others. This is only a partial list of products, which contain electronics. Actually electronics won our world. We wake up with the ring of electronic clock, drink coffee from a electronic coffee machine, work with computers, learn by using video conferences, listen to the music from a sound system and go to sleep while adjusting our electronic watch for tomorrow morning. It is hard even to think that only...
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N Type Silicon Crystal Of Silicon Resist
638 wordsInside every modern computer or other data-processing wonder is a microprocessor bearing millions of transistors sculpted from silicon y chemicals and light. Silicon, the second most abundant element on Earth, is used extensively in transistors, integrated circuits, photoelectric devices, and other electronic devices. A pure crystal of silicon does not conduct electricity unless traces of other substances are diffused or doped onto it. Therefore silicon must be manufactured in a specific way in ...
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York Stock Exchange Sole Proprietorship
1,837 wordsIntel Corporation A corporation is a business that, although owned by one or more investors, legally has the rights and duties of an individual. Corporations have the right to buy, sell, and own property. Corporations may make legal contracts, hire and fire workers, set prices, and be sued, fined, and taxed. A business must obtain a charter of incorporation from a state legislature or Congress to be legally recognized as a corporation. (Watson, p 211) While corporations didnt exist until the mid...
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Amount Of Time Silicon Chip
2,049 wordsomputers. I should start by saying that the Moores law is a theory developed in 1965 by Mr. Gordon Moore, one of the founding fathers of Intel. The theory basically states that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented. I should note that Mr. Moore predicted that this trend would continue for the foreseeable future, yet did not specify how foreseeable. In subsequent years (1970 s- 1990 s), the pace slowed dow...
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Muscular Dystrophy Vacuum Tubes
1,344 wordsThere are a number of people who would consider the technological and computer revolutions to be the greatest achievements of our time. But, will the near future for computers have continued impact on society? Society has marvelled at the current functions of computers from managing business accounts to connecting to the other side of the world with the Internet. The revolution was not always seen this way. Society felt that the quick change to a touch-button lifestyle might cause such pessimist...
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John W Mauchley High Speed Electronic
999 wordsThere have been few inventions that has grown an attached itself to as many lives as the invention of the computer. Computers can be found in almost every aspect of our lives, if not direct, indirectly. When I think of the different ways I come in contact with computers in one day its astounding. When I wake in the morning its usually by the assistance of an alarm clock that I program to alarm at a specific time. When I use my Metro Card to gain entrance to the train, a computer reads the funds ...
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World War Ii Read Only Memory
2,262 wordsIntroduction Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, people wanted and needed an easier way of calculating and measuring. Through the dreams of Charles Babbage, the computer was born. These new machines could do any regular math more than twice as fast as any human. Sadly, these ideas were not appreciated until almost one hundred years later. In the 1950 s, the idea of computers was brought up again. This is when people finally started crediting Babbage's work. The technology available...
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Integrated Circuit Electronic Computer
480 wordsInformation technology, IT, which comprises electronic computer technology and telecommunications technology, in the last few decades have changed our society radically. Behind this development lies a very advanced scientific and technical development originating largely from fundamental scientific inventions in physics. The rapid development of electronic computer technology really started with the invention of the integrated circuit around 1960 and the microprocessor in the 1970 s, when the nu...
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York Stock Exchange Sole Proprietorship
1,836 wordsA corporation is a business that, although owned by one or more investors, legally has the rights and duties of an individual. Corporations have the right to buy, sell, and own property. Corporations may make legal contracts, hire and fire workers, set prices, and be sued, fined, and taxed. A business must obtain a charter of incorporation from a state legislature or Congress to be legally recognized as a corporation. (Watson, p 211) While corporations didnt exist until the mid to late 1800 s, t...
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One Shot Low Cost
918 wordsWhen a beginner to electronics first looks at a circuit board full of components he / she is often overwhelmed by the diversity of do-dads. By looking at the diagrams bellow you can identify some of the simple components and their schematic symbol. Now you are able to call them resistors and transistors instead of Whatchamacallits. Electronic component are classed into either being Passive devices or Active devices. A Passive Device is one that contributes no power gain (amplification) to a circ...
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World War Ii Library Of Congress
1,727 wordsAn automated library is one where a computer system is used to manage one or several of the library's key functions such as acquisitions, serials control, cataloging, circulation and the public access catalog. When exploring the history of library automation, it is possible to return to past centuries when visionaries well before the computer age created devices to assist with their book lending systems. Even as far back as 1588, the invention of the French " Book Wheel" allowed schola...
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Room Temperature Small Amounts
1,195 wordsSilicon I. Introduction Silicon is a metalloid at room temperature with an atomic number of 14, 14 electrons, 14 neutrons, and an average atomic mass of 28. 0855. In its pure form silicon melts at 2, 570 degrees, and boils at 4, 271 degrees Fahrenheit. This element belongs to the metalloid family, the 14 th family on the periodic table of elements. This element is a solid metalloid at room temperature and turns to liquid at 2, 570 degrees. Silicon is prepared as a brown amorphous powder or as gr...
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