FOUNDATION OF COMPUTER

BACKGROUND OR FOUNDATION OF COMPUTER

In late 1930s a man named Dr. John V Atannasoff a Mathematics professor at Lowe State college in Ames. It came to a time when the school needs a calculating machine to carry out mathematical operations for about twenty master and doctorate degree student under him. After examining the existing mechanical device, he found that none was good for his need and conceived the ideal of a faster computing machine based on electronic circuitry.

It is suffice to say that man’s need for calculation and calculating aids dated back to Pascal in the 15^th century and even before then. As said earlier, Atannasoff cared with these problems set about with his conceived electronics computing machine and was faced with many difficulties in the logic circuitry. In the winter of 1937 – 1938, frustrated by these difficulties as not being able to complete the design, He drove across the Mississippi River into Illinois and settled in for drink in a small road side bar, it was there the ideal for computer memory and the associated logic was formulated that night. His assistance was called Clifford Berry. Thus the first computer was named after them; they called Atannasoff – Berry – Computer (ABC).