History of Computers

        The volume and use of computers in the world are so great, they have become difficult to ignore anymore. Computers appear to us in so many ways that many times, we fail to see them as they actually are. People associated with a computer when they purchased their morning coffee at the vending machine. As they drove themselves to work, the traffic lights that so often hampered us are controlled by computers in an attempt …

…of an input, memory, control, arithmetic unit and output as basic processes of a central processing unit. It has become the basic design and fundamental basis for the development of most computers (Palfreman and Swade 48). Works Cited Wulforst, Harry. Breakthrough to the Computer Age. New York:         Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. Palferman, Jon and Doron Swade. The Dream Machine.         London: BBC Books, 1991. Campbell-Kelly, Martin and William Aspray. Computer, A                  History of the Information Machine. New York:                                    BasicBooks, 1996.