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Hi guys, let's look at early computing devices Early Computing: Let's Add Human Computers at NASA in the 1960s In the early days, the word " COMPUTER " was used to describe the people who did calculations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with the help of an abacus, pen & paper, Napier's Bones etc. But, this was slow and error-prone and was also financially expensive. As society grew more complex, the level and amount of computation also increased. Therefore, this approach was becoming inefficient, By the time of Industrial Revolution we were already building mechanical machines for tasks such as weaving, spinning, and manufacturing. So why not build machines for these computations?? Blaise Pascal's Pascaline So here comes the first practical gear-based mechanical calculator, the Pascaline invented by Blaise Pascal. He made it to help his father calculate taxes. It could only do addition & subtraction. ...