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1). History Of The Computer; Analog Or Digital? In 'History of the Computer - the emergence of Electronics', we saw how the development of Radar during the second world war led to an understanding of pulse technology. At the same time methods were refined for the calculations required for the ballistic trajectories. From these beginnings, the digital computer was developed. What is ... 2). History Of The Computer; The Emergence Of Electronics. The history of the computer inevitably includes the development of electronics, we look at the explosive (!) growth of electronics in the late 1930s and early 1940s. If anything could be said in favor of war, it may be that it speeds up the development of technology. Of course much of that technology is employed in killing people and d... 3). History Of The Computerflip-Flops - A Basic Counter Flip-Flops - A basic counter We looked at the Binary system, and basic computer logic elements, in previous articles, "It's a binary world - how computers count" and "How computers add - a logical approach". Now we can combine two parts of these articles to look at a counter. Another common logic element in a computer is a... 4). How Computers Add - A Logical Approach We looked at Number Systems and counting (see It's a Binary World - How Computers Count) last time. As a quick refresher, we saw that computers are made up of many units of 0 and 1, the binary system. 1 is the highest digit possible so numbers in the computer are stored as for example 1010 or 10 in decimal. We also saw that these binary numbers can... 5). It's A Binary World - How Computers Count. Many have cursed their computer for taking things too literally! It's easy to blame the computer when something goes wrong. You get to the checkout at the market, and the item you bought 'on special' comes up at the full price. The manager has to be called to fix it up, and what does he say? "We've been having problems with the c...