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BTEC First Diploma For IT Practitioners The Development of Information Technology and Communication Report Date 11/02/2003 Contents Introduction 3 Objectives 3 Findings 4 History of the Computer 5 Home 11 Businesses 11 Schools & Colleges 12 Industry 12 Conclusions 13 Appendix 13 Bibliography 14 Introduction This assignment is about the development of ICT and my research into the history of computers. I have included in my report research of ICT, and my research into the history of computers. I have included people of importance to the development of computers in my report. Objectives To find out information about the development of ICT and to find the importance of computer history. Also to find the importance of people that was involved in the development of computers in the early years to the present. Findings Development of Computers Although the development of digital computers is rooted in the abacus and early mechanical calculating devices, Charles Babbage is credited with the design of the first modern computer, the "analytical engine," during the 1830s. American scientist Vannevar Bush built a mechanically operated device, called a differential analyser, in 1930;...

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