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Monday, March 31, 2008
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Bottomless Women In Public
Task 1 - "Information Technology and history "
reading the on-line content available, I have focused on As regards the history of computing. I would like to take this opportunity to share my curiosity.
It's funny, like to think not too many years ago, the everyday life and daily activities could be carried out without the use of computer information systems. When these did not exist or were not available to everyone, you had to do everything manually: from basic mathematical operations, until the establishment repetitive forms or cards, then I came back to mind an old ID of my grandmother COMPLETELY FILLED IN HAND! What makes you smile today, it was the normal reality of a story not too old.
The evolution of computers and the PC continues with a frantic speed, the same Bill Gates said: "If GM had progressed with the technology as much as the computer industry, we drive cars that run about $ 25,000 400 km with one liter of gasoline. "
It's strange to think how in 1969, scientists were able, using computers of a few Kbytes, to manage the operation of landing on moon, but now you need a computer with several Giga to run the latest game of football ...
words Num: 200
References:
http://www.veditiah.net/ articles.asp? id = 209 
reading the on-line content available, I have focused on As regards the history of computing. I would like to take this opportunity to share my curiosity.
It's funny, like to think not too many years ago, the everyday life and daily activities could be carried out without the use of computer information systems. When these did not exist or were not available to everyone, you had to do everything manually: from basic mathematical operations, until the establishment repetitive forms or cards, then I came back to mind an old ID of my grandmother COMPLETELY FILLED IN HAND! What makes you smile today, it was the normal reality of a story not too old.
The evolution of computers and the PC continues with a frantic speed, the same Bill Gates said: "If GM had progressed with the technology as much as the computer industry, we drive cars that run about $ 25,000 400 km with one liter of gasoline. "
It's strange to think how in 1969, scientists were able, using computers of a few Kbytes, to manage the operation of landing on moon, but now you need a computer with several Giga to run the latest game of football ...
words Num: 200
References:
http://www.veditiah.net/ articles.asp? id = 209
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