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计算机专业英语 Computer English Chapter 1 The History and Future of Computers 2009.9.1 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 计算机专业英语 1-3 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 计算机专业英语 1-4 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 characteris