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Computer History
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1. What need drove the development of mechanical calculating tools?
2. What idea connected the Jacquard loom and Hollerith machines?
3. Why is the Analytical Engine an important concept in computing history?
4. What distinguished Ada Lovelace's vision of the Analytical Engine?
5. What did the Turing machine model clarify?
6. Why do historians differ over the title of the 'first computer'?
7. Why is the stored-program concept important?
8. What was a major effect of replacing vacuum tubes with transistors?
9. What change did the microprocessor bring to computer development?
10. What correctly distinguishes the internet from the web?