Computing devices.
Computing devices
A device may be defined as an tool, instrument or machine that designed to perform a specific function.
A computing device is a device that is designed to perform the function of a computer. It can also be defined as an tool, instrument or machine that is designed to be used for the purpose of computing.
Examples
- Smartphone
- Tablet
- Laptop computer
- Desktop computer
- Calculator
- Smartwatch
- Digital clock
- Mobile phones
- Super computer
- Calculator etc
Computing devices includes devices that are also designed to be used either with a computer or in computing environment.
Computing devices are very useful and handy e.g smartphone because they make our work easier and faster.
Devices have been used to aid computation for thousands of years, mostly using one-to-one correspondence with fingers. The earliest counting device was probably a form of tally stick. Later record keeping aids throughout the Fertile Crescent included calculi (clay spheres, cones, etc.) which represented counts of items, probably livestock or grains, sealed in hollow unbaked clay containers. The use of counting rods is one example.
The earliest known man made computing device is the Ishango bone, a bone tool dating back to prehistoric Africa.
The Ishango bone.