Part one of term paper
The idea of computing has been in people’s minds throughout history. Today we have a different idea of computers, but a computer is any complex counting machine. The first computer ever used by a person could have been a simple set of stones that he used to represent a set or group of something. These stones were used to perform calculation ...

Part two of term paper
... was greatly improved on. 1951-1959 were the years of the first generation of computers. In 1951 Computers were only owned and used by scientists, engineers, and the military. They had not even been introduced for business use, and not many people knew about them. These computers ran on vacuum tubes. They were very large, slow, and produced a lot of heat. The vacuum tubes that the computer ran on failed frequently. They were down and not running for most of the time. But these new machines were b ...