Pre-Computer
The difference engine was a pre-computer that Charles Babbage created. It had a lot of moving parts that made jammed all the time and made it useless. Next he created something called the Analytic Engine. It could store, execute, and change instructions. It had so many parts that it could not be produced. These are two of the first two pre-computers. Herman Hollerith created a device that could read data from punched cards, and keep track of the count. The U.S. Census sponsored a contest that was searching for such a machine. They got their machine. Soon after John V. Atanasoff created the very first digital-computing device. This device was the forerunner of the first generation of computers. The next wave of computers to come around was the first generation of computers. In 1944, the Mark I was created.
