can anyone explain a computer to someone if you where in the 1900's where would you start as they have no tech
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It all depends. If they were asking you to explain what a computer is in 1900 it is not possible since I don;t think computers were available back then. If they are asking to explain present technology to someone from the 1900, I would start out with te basics of the different componets of a computer, eg. hard drive, mother board, power supply, RAM, disk drives, and etc. The reson for this is that you need to understand how a computer works before you can even get to software.
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What do you mean like a normal computer??  well why don't u just go to Start->All Programs->Accessories and choose calculator and set it up for scientific...
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Here is a long list of all what you might need to understand computer names. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terms
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go to google and type or ask a tech ed teachier
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware
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I wouldn't you can find a lot of free material on the internet that can show you how to build a computer.
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Yes because I used to like typing in basic (Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) into the computer from the magazines that used to have them and then get the programs running, plus I tried writing simple question and answer type programs.  I first learned it on my Commodore Vic-20 with 5K of Ram and two 3 and 1/2 inch Floppy drives with 720 K diskettes and a place to plug in cartridges to play games and no hard drive.\n\nI thought the old computers were fun for me and I learned about computers that way and the inner workings of them and how to fix computer problems through Trial and Error Method.
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Are you asking what happens when you try to teach computing without computers?
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SoMe PeoPle Dont HaVe ThE ComPuTeR TypE ThAt GuvEs ThEm ThE Opp. To MaKe OnE
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Pffffffth.  You young whippersnapper!\n\nMy first computer was a dumb terminal (no memory, processor, or storage media to speak of) that hooked into something called an "acoustic coupler," which was a modem that only hooked into the old Ma Bell standard issue desk phones.  You took the phone off the hook and put it on this device after dialing your number.\n\nThe terminal's only purpose was to connect to mainframes via that crude device, or a more direct connection if it were close enough to the mainframe.\n\nAnyway, that coupler was 300bps.  I could read faster than it displayed, and damn near type as fast.\n\nYou young punks with your 1200, 2400, 9600 DEVIL bit rates!\n\n(I don't think I remember 2600, except for the Atari model)
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http://books.google.com/books?q=Information+about+the+last+generation+of+computer%3F&ots=eRnTQQcyKD&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title
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what kind of computer do you have and what year is it?
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This has to be really useful:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer\n\n(10 points 4 me? ;)  )
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Try these websites:\nhttp://www.hitmill.com/computers/computerhx1.html\nhttp://www.maxmon.com/history.htm--look 2 the left\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm\nhttp://www.softlord.com/comp/\n\nhope this helps. They might provide some information. But your best bet is to do an outline first. That way you don't have alot if information and nothing to do with it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_literacy
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ADVANTAGES:\nBack then, we didn’t have all of the wonderful advantages of modern technology. For instance, if we wanted to make copies of documents, we simply inserted more sheets of carbon in the typewriter.\n\nOur telephones were the good old-fashioned black variety pro­vided free of charge by Ma Bell. Our offices were in the local bank building. I think the phones were installed when the building was built around the turn of the cen­tury, and hadn’t required service since. There was no such thing as a car phone.\n\nOur dictating machines re­sembled Thomas Edison’s original recording device. Dictation was re­corded by a needle on a round plastic cylinder.\n\nSummers and winters could be uncomfortable. When it got hot, we loosened our ties and sometimes removed our suit coats. We tried putting a fan in the window once but it blew all the papers off the desks.\n\nIn the winter, if we got cold, we had an old crescent wrench that we banged on the radiators. Someone down in the bowels of the building would then send up a blast of steam in the pipes. The office would then get too hot and we would have to open the windows to cool off.\n\nTypewriters were operated man­ually and had no “memory”.\n\nTo mail letters, we had a large roll of stamps. All you had to do was tear one off and lick it.\n\nToday, we have all of the advan­tages of modern technology.\n\nIf we want to make copies of documents, we don’t even use car­bon paper; we have a wonderful photostat machine that even en­larges or reduces the size of copies at the push of a button.\n\nOf course, the machine has a mind of its own. The manufacturer (which advertises that it makes nothing but photostat machines) has a large staff of service people, one of whom makes his home at our office. When something goes wrong, his explanation is that it’s not the machine—we just use it too much.\n\nWhen we moved into our new office building in 1980, we couldn’t get the old black phones supplied by Ma Bell. We had to purchase our own telephone system. It has all kinds of features the old black phones didn’t have, including auto­matic dialing of up to 25 numbers, automatic redial, hands-free use, etc.\n\nOf course, whenever we have a lightning storm, or if we have what’s called a “power surge,” the phones go out, disconnecting all calls in process. Someone then has to run down to the basement and press the reset button.\n\nCar phones are another great advancement in telephone service. When they first came out, they were status symbols, like a Mercedes. Now, the price has come down so that just about anyone can afford them and they’re no longer status symbols (car phones, that is, not Mercedeses).\n\nOur dictating machines are now hand-held tape recorders. This makes it convenient to do dictation wherever one happens to be. One of my partners, for instance, has a rare combination of talents; he can drive his car while shaving, dictat­ing, talking on the phone and eating breakfast, all at the same time.\n\nToday, typewriters have been re­placed by computers which are networked and can communicate with one another. When I come into the office these days, I half expect to hear the computers carrying on a conversation - in computerese, of course. Since I’m a relic of the pre­computer age, I tread very lightly when I’m near the computers for fear of getting them “mad” at me.\n\nThe building is heated and cooled by high-efficiency heating and cool­ing units. We have four zones on the main floor. The heat and air conditioning are turned up and down in the morning and evening, without the aid of a crescent wrench. It’s all automatic.\n\nFor three months in the spring and fall, according to our employ­ees, the building is too cold in the morning and too hot during the day, or too hot in the morning and too cold during the day, depending on the season. Also, although all zones are set at the same tem­perature, there is a variance of three to four deg
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they have books at the library beginner to expert should find one thereor try these http://www.dontbeafraidbooks.com/ http://www.amazon.com/Internet-Beginners-Computer-Philippa-Wingate/dp/0746026897http://www.gifts.com/products/Walmart/Absolute-Beginners-Guide-to-Computer-Basics?p=2143:2628728:10&sid=vsmopd:absolute+beginners+guide+to+computer+basics+book:P&rid=