Week 3 tute....

An evolved species....


Since its birth the computer has evolved in many ways - obviously the level of technology has increased and improved, the use of the computer and the physical appearance have both changed.
The 'Bombe' was the first working computer developed by Alan Turing in 1912 and was used to break secret German 'Enigma' codes. This breakthrough machine was put to the test by assessing whether or not a judge could determine between the human and the computer doing the work. The 'Bombe' was large in size, quite loud and required many hours of decyphering and recording messages. Almost a century later in the 'technology age', with Turin's amazing contraption in a museum; we can sit in front of a stylish compact machine and with a few clicks of the mouse have all of our personal files, business programs and stored data organised and easily accessable.
Big players in this field Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak combined forces in around 1980 to home-make PCs... their garage based idea named 'Apple' slowly but surely became one of the largest empires in the technology world. Beginning with software development and hardware production; Apple and its competitor Microsoft are now multi-million dollar companies.
Computers have evolved from the humble box with knobs and buttons to portable, compact technology devices capable of playing music, videos, wireless communication and storing huge amounts of data in organised filing systems.
It is safe to say that computers will never stay the same - they will upgrade, improve and be altered until we have the fastest, most reliable and personal computers in every home.