History of Computer

Early devices
Ancient era
The earliest counting device was
a form of tally stick.
clay spheres, cones counts of
items, grain
counting rods is one example.

The abacus was early used

for arithmetic tasks. The
Chinese abacus, known as
the sunpn The earliest
known
written
documentation
of
the
Chinese abacus dates to the
2nd century BC.

Suanpan (the
number
represented on this
abacus
is
6,302,715,408)

A
set
of John
Napier's
calculating
tables from
around
1680.