The document provides a history of computers from early mainframes that filled entire rooms to modern laptops. It notes that early mainframes required operators to manually load programs from punch cards or tape, while modern servers have replaced mainframes. The size of computers has drastically decreased over time due to technological advancements like replacing vacuum tubes with transistors and reducing transistor size based on Moore's Law.

1. The Difference between a Businessman and Entrepreneur
What is the difference between a businessman and an entrepreneur? Are there really
differences between doing business and doing entrepreneurship? We often hear and read
these two terms used interchangeably and we often think that they are just two things with
the same meaning. When we do business, we can easily call ourselves business persons.
Sometimes, we also call ourselves entrepreneurs, thinking that we are into the venture of
entrepreneurship. But when can we really call someone a businessman and how can we really
identify a person as an entrepreneur? They just seem to be indifferent since they both own a
business. Let us further clarify these two things to properly label ourselves or someone if he‟s
a business or an entrepreneur.
A business can be classified according to ownership structure, such as proprietorship,
partnership or corporation. Thus, a businessman can be called as a proprietor, partner or a
stockholder. Businesses can also be categorized according to industries, such as trading,
servicing and manufacturing. On the other hand, entrepreneurship also comes in different
forms. It can be in these revolutionary forms, such as social entrepreneurship,
ecopreneurship, technopreneurship and infopreneurship. Thus, an entrepreneur can also be
called a social entrepreneur, ecopreneur, technopreneur, or infopreneur.
Just by classifying a businessman and an entrepreneur, you can already have an idea on the
distinction of the two. Yes, an entrepreneur is more innovative and revolutionary than the
traditional businessman. But this dissimilarity is only one of the many divergences between a
business person and an entrepreneur. The following is a list of the differences between a
person who is merely doing business and one who is doing entrepreneurship.
Businessman or business person Entrepreneur
1. Starts a business from an existing idea or concept Starts a business from his own
unique idea or concept
2. Has many business rivals His business rival is himself
3. Focuses on competition Focuses on cooperation
4. Is always busy on his business “busy-ness” Is only busy in preparing his new enterprise
5. Don‟t have enough time for his family and personal life Have a lot of time for his family and
personal life
6. His business gives him a living He gives life to his business
7. Traditional Innovative and revolutionary
8. Stays safe Risk taker and accountable
9. Worried Excited

2. 10. Profit oriented People (i.e., employee, customer, public) oriented
11. Has an active income or profit Has a passive income or profit
12. Hire people to increase business productivity Hire people to give them productivity
13. A market player A market leader
14. Has not yet achieved financial freedom Has achieved financial freedom
15. Only gives importance to a part of the business world (atomistic) Gives importance to
the business world as a whole (holistic)
From the comparisons above, we can learn that entrepreneurship is not an easy feat compare
to merely doing business. We can also realize that an entrepreneur is a business person who
has evolved into a more complete person – one that is not simply a business person but a real
human being. Being a businessman is good. Being profit oriented, market player, business
competitor, traditional, busy and active income earner is not bad since all business owners
have been on those stages. Even the successful entrepreneurs, before they succeed, have
been into that. It is just that they have taken the right move to evolve into a better and even
the best businessmen that they can be. That is why they become not only businessmen, but
rightfully they become entrepreneurs. So, how about you? Are you a businessman or an
entrepreneur? Are you merely doing business or are you taking it into a higher level, which is
called entrepreneurship?

3. History of Computer
A computer is basically an electronic device which is used to input, output, process, and store
data but there are some definitions which will include devices such as digital calculators and
digital watches in the category of a computer. Software is also considered when looking at
the history of computers, not only the physical hardware and the capabilities of the hardware
available at the particular time. Operating systems with the features they carry and
videogames with their utilization of the available technology are sometimes also used as
markers in computer history.
The earlier computers were much larger in comparison to the computers available today,
sometimes filling entire rooms or sections of buildings. Some persons may be familiar with the
term “mainframe” which is a large computer which can do many different tasks
simultaneously. Modern mainframes and older mainframes were not much different in their
function which is to provide a centralized point for all data to be processed and sometimes
stored but older mainframes did not have the benefit of the newer technologies available
today.
As computers evolved and got smaller and smaller, the use of mainframes to handle
workloads decreased as standalone computers became more popular. The difference with
standalones versus those attached to the mainframe – which were called workstations, is the
fact that standalones could run applications by themselves while workstations depended on
the mainframe being online in order to function.
Much older mainframes would run different programs based on a schedule and persons were
assigned to feed or load the scheduled application at the appointed time. When the appointed
program was scheduled to be run a person would have to load either punch cards or tape
spools into the mainframe in order for it to run the specified application and the workstations
would then load the application to the mainframe. In more recent times servers have generally
replaced mainframes but in some companies there are still those who use modern mainframes
as an alternative to having hundreds of servers in different locations.
The size of the computer is the greatest measure of how far technology has come. We have
moved from computers filling entire buildings to laptops that have as much functionality as a
desktop and portable enough to tote around everyday.
A quick timeline of how computers have evolved include the movement from punch card
program input to magnetic tape program input, the moving of storage devices to magnetic
drum media, moving from vacuum tube electronic components to transistor electronic
components and ultimately the reduction in the size of transistors which is the primary reason
for computers having reached where they are.
An interesting concept to examine in computing would be Moore‟s Law which outlines a trend
in computing and the „block‟, which will be the farthest point that computing will reach.
improvement of computers will have to stop.