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COMPUTER – A MODERN INVENTION?
With new hardware and software appearing all the time, the computer still seems quite a modern invention. Przykład __D__. The PC is from the 1970s, the mouse is almost sixty years old – just like the hard disk drive. 1 ____. But they aren’t necessary for a computer to be a computer. Basically, the computer is a machine that makes calculations automatically. 2 ____. Nothing else!
Early counting machines were constructed by great mathematicians. 3 ____. It resembled a clock and was made of similar elements – it didn’t use electricity. But probably it isn’t the oldest computer. One good candidate for this title is the Antikythera mechanism. 4 ____. After long studies of the pieces scientists concluded it was used to calculate the positions of the sun, moon and planets.
Still, one day an older device may be discovered in a different part of the world. There have been some theories made about other objects. 5 ____. Who knows if it is not true? Unfortunately, we can’t ask people from the ancient past this question.
A And all these are only improvements.
B For example, some say Stonehenge is another ancient computer.
C However, the first automatic calculator was constructed in 1623.
D In fact, it’s pretty old.
E Its fragments were found on an ancient Greek shipwreck.
F Modern computers come from ancient times.
G The data we use (e.g. photos or games) are only numbers.
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