I am pleased to give you information on the history of computers. I learned a lot of important things about computers from our time and our past. Take a moment to enjoy my paper on the history of computers. I hope it’s as enlightening to you as it was to me.

“Who invented the computer”? is not a question easily answered. The answer is that many inventors contributed to the history of computers. Computers are complex pieces of machinery made up of many parts each of which can be considered a separate invention.

This paper covers some of the milestones in computer history, concentrating more on the history of personal home computers. For instance, in 1936 Konrad Zuse made the first freely programmable computer called the Z1. In 1944, Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper created the Mark1. Then in 1951 John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly produced the first commercial computer called the Univac. In 1953 I. B.M (International Business Machines Corporation) enters into the history of computers.

At one time hardly anyone could access a computer simply because it was not at our grasp. Computers weren't considered mainstream until the 1980's, before that we had several other ways of getting work done. In corporate settings, secretaries and typewriters were used to do the bulk of the paperwork, most executives utilized more than one secretary. The issue with that would be that human error comes into play they had to correct mistakes using liquid paper. This was very time consuming because most work was done on carbon copies and editing was troublesome.

With the implementation of computers secretaries became a want instead of a necessity. The work load was lessened meaning that executives needed less secretaries, one was usually enough.

Funny story, a modern elementary teacher brought in an old typewriter to her class, her