1. page 6, paragraph 2: "A 'computer' was a person who performed calculations. These human computers labored for many hours to produce mathematical tables. Unfortunately, to err is human, and the tables they produced were riddled with mistakes."
It is funny how now the machines that have become part of our daily lives had the same name as one who computes 40 years ago.
2. paragraph 3 Konrad Zuse:"I was too lazy to calculate, so I invented the computer."
This is also funny because it seems that creating the very first computer is the easy thing. It is also ironic how they rejected the idea when it was first debuted.
3. paragraph 5:"When Atanasoff approached International Business Machines for funding, he was told :IBM will never be interested in an electronic computing machine."
Ironically IBM is now one of the bigest computer distributors. Also we notice in stead of computers it is refered to as "electronic computing machine."
4."This 51-foot-long, 8-foot-tall monsterused noisy, slow electromechanical relays, but it proved its worth by computing ballistics tables for the U.S. navy."
It is also very ironic how 40 years a ago computers were as tall as a house, when now we have inventions like laptops such as the Macbook Air.
5.Page 7 "THe Space race spurred futher develpments incomputer technology. After the soviet Union's successful lauch of the Sputnik Satellite in 1957, the United States was desperate to catch up with its Cold War rival.
We can tell that the space race played an essential role in computers and technology and spurred many new ideas for technology.
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