1. A brief history of computing machines
The history of information processing machines has its roots far back in history, and continues today at a very rapid pace. We'll see that this discipline has always developed by absorbing other trends and extending them by opening up new possibilities. It has also been divided into a number of paths, each with its own highly variable future, ranging from success to abandonment.
To explain the origins of this story, we will divide it into four main periods:
the premises of automatic calculation ;
automatic calculators ;
from numerical calculation to the computer ;
towards ubiquity.
1.1 Automatic calculation...
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