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Dear Computer User,
Computers have not always been the excellent tools we have today. They had to be invented--or you could say created. Here is a fairly extensive look into the history of computers. Enjoy.
Your Computer Friend
How did they evolve ? Let's take a look.....
3100 BC In Mesopotamia, tokens used for accounting and record-keeping
Way back in 500
B.C. the Egyptians, and later
around 800 A.D. the Chinese, used a bead and wire
abacus for adding and subtracting
large sums of numbers.
In 1617 A.D. Scotland's
John Napier introduced a system of multiplying by adding numbers and dividing by 
subtracting. The system, which was called "Napier's Bones," was a
mechanical numbering device made of horn, bone, or ivory. He spent most of his life
trying to make arithmetic less laborious. (My kinda guy!) But he didn't think
his discoveries were important and only published them at the urging of friends.
