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The chapter “Chronology” describes selected pivotal achievements from the pre- and early history of computer science and automaton construction. The history of computing technology begins with counting on the fingers, the notched bone, the tally stick, the quipu, and the abacus and ranges from the slide rule and the mechanical calculating machine to the stored program electronic computer, the Internet, the World Wide Web, the smartphone, and the quantum computer. The earliest known calculating aids were already digital: fingers, the tally stick, the quipu, and the abacus. The most important analog device was the (logarithmic) slide rule.
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Bruderer, H. (2020). Chronology. In: Milestones in Analog and Digital Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40974-6_5
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