本文探讨了现代计算机的起源，从20世纪30年代到40年代的发展，以及ENIAC、EDSAC、BINAC和UNIVAC等早期计算机的发明。重点讲述了每一代计算机的主要特征，包括硬件和软件的趋势，现代计算机的基本特性，并强调了科技英语的学习要点。
计算机专业英语
Computer English
Chapter 1 The History and
Future of Computers
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Chapter 1 The History and Future of Computers
Key points:
Key points:
useful terms and definitions of
useful terms and definitions of
computers
computers
Difficult points:
Difficult points:
describing the features of
describing the features of
computers of each generation
computers of each generation
计算机专业英语 1-2
Chapter 1 The History and Future of Computers
Requirements:
Requirements:
1. The trends of computer hardware and software
2. Basic characteristics of modern computers
3. Major characteristics of the four generations
of modern computers
4. 了解科技英语的特点，掌握科技英语翻译要点
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Chapter 1 The History and Future of Computers
1.1 The Invention of the Computer
New Words & Expressions:
computerlike a. 计算机似的 electromechanical a. 机电的, 电机的
vacuum tubes 真空管 Census Bureau 人口普查局
thousands of 成千上万的 known as 通常所说的，以……著称
Abbreviations:
ENIAC(Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)
电子数字积分计算机，ENIAC计算机
EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer)
延迟存储电子自动计算机
BINAC (Binary Automatic Computer) 二进制自动计算机
UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) 通用自动计算机
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Chapter 1 The History and Future of Computers
1.1 The Invention of the Computer
It is hard to say exactly when the modern computer was
invented. Starting in the 1930s and through the 1940s, a number
of machines were developed that were like computers. But most
of these machines did not have all the characteri
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