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RafaBefore the advent of "computers" (before calculators) there was an actual job to solve equations--math problems, in essence. Adding, subtracting, multiplying for banks and businesses.
These people were called computers because they computed numbers all day long.
When ENIAC was first developed it began doing the job of solving equations and was called a "computer" because it did the job of a computer.
Computer word came from ancient latin name 'computare' which means sum up or count.
For hundreds of years it referred to a human who's job was to sum up, count, and/or do other calculations; either by hand or with the aid of a device (e.g. abacus, sector, slide rule, mechanical desk calculator). But in the late 1940s as programmable electronic data processing machines began to eliminate jobs for humancomputers (at the time just called "computers") these machines began to be called electronic computers, and eventually just computers (just like the humans they had replaced).
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What is the term for starting a computer?
Its also termed as booting a computer
What does the cumputer term PC stand for?
Politically Correct??? Personal Computer???
Is there a computer named dinosaur?
No. People just use the term "dinosaur" to describe an old computer.
What is the term used when a computer is thinking?
Processing.
When did the computer come out?
Mostly during WW2
