| tion_start --> | | | | 1995. He was a German engineer who was an |
| Long before wholesale computers dominated our | | | | employee of a German aircraft company. During |
| consciousness, some person had to think up this | | | | World War II, he concluded he wished to invent a sort |
| ensconced marvel of the current era. Who thought up | | | | of automatic calculator with memory. During six years |
| and built the first computer and set up the possibilities | | | | till 1941, he made the Z1, Z2 and Z3 computers. The |
| for phenomena like computer wholesalers? The | | | | latter is credited with being the first programmable |
| background is not necessarily completely agreed upon. | | | | computer, in certain quarters. It weighed 1000 kilograms |
| Pundits say Charles Babbage; others make the claim | | | | - a far cry from the little notebook that you can have |
| for Konrad Zuse. Let's investigate the known facts in | | | | sent from a computer wholesaler for just a few |
| favor of each. (Or if you prefer, you can run to the | | | | dollars because it weighs in at almost nothing in |
| laptop that you ordered on the Web from a computer | | | | comparison to the Z3. Zuse's Z3 invention was |
| wholesale supplier and click on Bing, but even then, you | | | | destroyed when Berlin was bombed in 1943. But a |
| may not know for sure the answer!) | | | | functional replica was reconstructed in the early 1960s. |
| Let's start with Babbage who was alive from 1791 to | | | | So was this the first electronic computer? |
| 1871. A mechanical engineer, Mr. Babbage designed | | | | Many say that since Konrad Zuse actually constructed |
| many machines that were intended to perform | | | | a working machine, he is the "father of the modern |
| calculations automatically. He designed what came to | | | | computer", while others support Charles Babbage |
| be known as "the difference engine" and what was | | | | does, since his predecessor plan did in fact function |
| called the "analytical engine". The analytical engine was | | | | when finally put together. The question will likely not be |
| to be programmable using cards; at least, that was the | | | | resolved, because some suggest a much, much earlier |
| design. Babbage, however, did not construct either of | | | | date of invention. The forerunner to the modern |
| these two inventions. In the early 1990s, the London | | | | wholesale computer, they suggest, is an abacus dating |
| Science Museum constructed the "difference engine" | | | | back centuries. |
| to the original design and using 19th century | | | | So all really depends upon exactly the question you |
| specifications. It operated! Thus, although he did not | | | | are asking. In fact, the development of knowledge that |
| actually construct a working machine, many credit him | | | | led to electronic computers and to the computer |
| with its invention. So is this who you should thank for | | | | wholesale choices you have now is a product of the |
| wholesale computers? Maybe, maybe not! | | | | entire past. |
| After Babbage came Zuse who lived from 1910 to | | | | |