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Factopedia                               Read the below hints and write down their names:
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                                                       1.  You can keep me on your lap               ___________

                                                       2.  I am an ancient tool for calculation      ___________

                                                       3.  Blaise Pascal is my father                ___________

                                                       4.  You can keep me on a desk                 ___________
                   The Apple II computer
                    had a hard drive of

                     only 5 megabytes
                   when it was released.                    Let’s BaCk-uP

                                                        Early people tied knots in a rope and carved marks on
                                                       clay to keep the records.
                                                        ABACUS was the first calculating device invented 3000
                      There is special                 years ago in China.
                     Braille technology                 Blaise Pascal  invented the  calculating  machine  called
                    and accessories for                Pascaline.

                    blind people to use                 Step Reckoner, the first calculator that could perform all
                        cell phones.                   four arithmetic  operations, was invented  by  Gottfried
                                                       Wilhelm Leibniz in 1672.
                                                        Analytical Engine, the first-ever working model of a me-

                                                       chanical computer, was invented by Charles Babbage,
                                                       who is known as ‘the Father of Computer’.
                                                        Lady Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer.
                                                        Herman Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine read and stored
                                                       data from punched card.

                    Photo Stick is a small              Mark-I was the first electro-mechanical computer.
                   USB drive designed to                In 1980’s, Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) came into
                    back up your photos                existence in which thousands of transistors were placed
                   and videos. It contains             on a single chip.
                   a software that scans                The present computer took its shape in five generations.
                     your computer for                  Desktop can be seen at various places such as homes,
                   photos and videos and               schools and shops.
                    automatically saves                 A laptop is smaller than a desktop computer.
                           them.
                                                        A tablet is a notebook-shaped mobile computer.
                                                        A smartphone is a mobile phone that can be used as a
                                                       computer also.



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