t and once again, it is only a beginning. Were did this all begin, when was the first computer invented and how did it become what it is today, well see that a little bit later. Although computers started out by being simple calculators and later on complicated Main-Frames that used punch cards for input devices, today's computers are much more powerful, and they seem a lot more easy to use and to understand, but are they really?Although this report examines the effect of computers on the business world and on our daily lives, it is important to know when and where they come from. Therefore, the report covers three main topics :1. When were computers first invented2. The business world and computers3. Why we use computers in our daily lives and why as it become a necessityWhen were computers inventedBrief history of computersThe history of computers began during World War II, when a team of scientists and engineers at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, invented a general-purpose electronic digital calculator know as ENIAC, or Electronic Numerator, Integrator, Analyzer, and Computer. Consisting of 18 000 vacuum tubes, occupying most of a large room, and adding 5000 ten-digit decimal numbers a second, ENIAC was a revolutionary development, light years ahead of any other calculators.However, ENIAC was not a computer in the strict meaning of the term. It could not store a program, in other words, it could not store a list of list of instructions that tells a computer what to do. Although ENIAC wasn't a bona fide computer, it quickly led to the invention of one, and today's computers are its direct descendants.First computer inventedAfter the invention of ENIAC in 1944, another contract was issued for the design of the Electronic Discrete Variable Computer, or EDVAC, a computer that would be used to store programs in it. It may seem simple now, but at the time, it was merely impossible to think that you could store commands in ...
