This term paper is about the origin of the computers, classifying them by generations, each generation comes given by changes and technological improvements, but before speaking of each generation we should know something of the history that carried to build the first computer. For centuries, men have tried to use forces and appliances of different type to carry out his work, to do it simpler and faster. The history of the appliances that calculate or …showed first 75 words of 1073 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1073 total…computers have become the main tool utilized by man and they already are an essential part of each one of us. Other advances are: The integrated circuits have permitted to reduce the size of the devices with the consequent descent of the prices of production and of maintenance of the systems. At same time, they offer greater velocity and reliability. The digital clocks, the portable computers and the electronic play are systems based on microprocessors.