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Factopedia Read the below hints and write down their names:
Let’s CatCh uP
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 mechanical 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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