DALUBHASAAN NG LUNGSOD NG LUCENA

(Formerly City College of Lucena)

Isabang, Lucena City
TEL No.: 797-1671
Department of Information Technology
FCA – Fundamentals of Computer Applications

ACTIVITY 1. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

FULL NAME: Tadiosa Joseph

Student ID No.: 023A-10363

Department: BSSW-1A

Pre-Mechanical Mechanical Age Electromechanical Age Electronic Age

Age (Between 1450 (1840-1940) (1940-present)
(Between 3000 and 1840)
B.C and 1450
A.D)
Characteristi - no kinds - first start - use electricity for - The digital
cs of to see information age
compute connectio handling
r system ns - Period of
between - The beginning of transition
- early age our telecommunicati from
of current ons traditional
informati technolog industry to
on y and its - The beginning of an economy
technolo ancestors. electromechanic based on
gy al computing information
- several computerizati
- used machines on
symbols were
as a invented. - Long distance
substitut communicati
e for - different on become
pictures calculators efficient
to depict were
ideas invented.

- curved - methods
writing of
organizing
informatio
n paved
the way
for the
developm
ent of files
and
 databases.
Invention - Clay tablets - Movable metal- - Voltaic battery -Z3
were used to type writing first electric battery First programmable
write alphabets machine known as voltaic pile computer
for
communication. - LOGS - Telegraph - Mark 1
(Logarithm) first storage
- stylus for pen allows - First working computer
and papyrus multiplication telephone
plants and and division to be
paper made reduce in -Radio - ABC or Atanasoff-
from rags as addition and discovered that Berry Computer
their paper as subtraction. electrical waves travel First completed
input through space and can electronic computer
technologies - Arabian Lattice produce and effect far
lays out a special from the point at which
- Fold sheets of version of it originated - present gadgets
papyrus as multiplication like laptop,
books. tables on set of - Boolean Algebra smartphones,
four-sided tablets, etc.
- Egyptian wooden rods. - Comptometer
system as the Key driven adding and
first numbering - Napier’s Bone subtracting calculator.
system
- First Mechanical - Comptograph
- Abacus as the Calculator containing a built in
first calculator that can work printer
with six digits
and can carries - Tabulating machine
digits across
columns - Millionaire
First efficient four
- Slide rule function calculator
an analog
computer that - Vacuum tubes
allowed users to this is important for it
multiply and provided electrically
divide. controlled switch

- Pascaline
that could solve
mathematical
problems

- Stepped
Reckoner that
could multiply 5
digit and 12 digit
numbers yielding
up to 16 digit
 numbers

- Automatic loom
(weaving loom)
that was
controlled by
punched cards.

- Arithmometer
(The first mass
produced
calculator)

- Difference
engine (1821) a
machine creation
that could
calculate
numbers and
print the results
and analytical
engine (1832)
design for a
simpler
mechanical
computer

These four computer periods help the current technology we are using now, from the different
communication we are using, from different styles of computing, from different ways of passing
information, and from other things we are doing in our daily lives.