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The first compiler, A-0, was also created during this time by Grace Hopper of COBOL fame. She also coined th term computer bug to describe something preventing computer operation. In this case it was aM oth that had gotten in between the relay contacts of a mechanical switch in the Harvard Mark II.
In 1960s the move was away from the electrical-mechanical devices using relays and vacuum tubes to devices that used transitors with such product series as IBM's 7000 series.
See also: ComputerHistory.org
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What is a Computer?
A computer is a machine that is a thinking machine in that humans design computer s to do actions in an automated or semi-automated way.A Short Computer History
The first electronic and electro-mechanical versions of computers arose during the WWII era both in the USA and Great Britan. Jhn Von Neumann in 1945 orginally came up with the computer architecture we use today in the form of storage to store a program as opposed to punched paper tape.The first compiler, A-0, was also created during this time by Grace Hopper of COBOL fame. She also coined th term computer bug to describe something preventing computer operation. In this case it was aM oth that had gotten in between the relay contacts of a mechanical switch in the Harvard Mark II.
In 1960s the move was away from the electrical-mechanical devices using relays and vacuum tubes to devices that used transitors with such product series as IBM's 7000 series.
See also: ComputerHistory.org
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