The document summarizes key events and innovations in the history of computers from ancient times to the present. It describes the abacus from 3000 BC, the slide rule from 1622, early mechanical calculators and computers from the 1600s-1800s, the first general purpose computer designed by Charles Babbage in 1833, the first digital computer ENIAC from 1946, the first commercial computer UNIVAC from 1952, and the development of integrated circuits, microprocessors and personal computers that ushered in newer generations from the 1960s onward.

1. Highlights in Computer History

2. Webster's Dictionary defines "computer" as any programmable electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data COMPUTER From the Latin word “computare” to reckon – to sum up The Old Oxford English dictionary describes a computer as a person employed to make calculations. * Before the machines, people were hired to do calculations .

10. ENIAC

13. UNIVAC 1952

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