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Computer | Definition, History, Operating Systems, Facts | Britannica A computer is a programmable device for processing, storing, and displaying information Learn more in this article about modern digital electronic computers and their design, constituent parts, and applications as well as about the history of computing
What is a computer? | Britannica A computer is a machine that can store and process information Most computers rely on a binary system, which uses two variables, 0 and 1, to complete tasks such as storing data, calculating algorithms, and displaying information
Computer - History, Technology, Innovation | Britannica Computer - History, Technology, Innovation: A computer might be described with deceptive simplicity as “an apparatus that performs routine calculations automatically ”
Computer - Technology, Invention, History | Britannica Computer - Technology, Invention, History: By the second decade of the 19th century, a number of ideas necessary for the invention of the computer were in the air
computer - Kids | Britannica Kids | Homework Help Computer software is divided into two basic types—the operating system and application software The operating system controls how the different parts of hardware work together Application software gives the computer instructions for doing specific tasks, such as word processing or playing games
Z3 | computer | Britannica In computer: Konrad Zuse …machines were really calculators—not computers—his Z3, completed in December 1941 (and destroyed on April 6, 1945, during an Allied air raid on Berlin), was the first program-controlled processor
Computer virus | Definition Facts | Britannica A more damaging virus can wreak havoc on an extremely large computer system within a matter of minutes or hours, causing it to crash and thereby destroy valuable data, or can disable a computer system until a ransom is paid
Analytical Engine | Description Facts | Britannica Analytical Engine, generally considered the first computer, designed and partly built by the English inventor Charles Babbage in the 19th century The Analytical Engine was to be a general-purpose, fully program-controlled, automatic mechanical digital computer