BUS 237 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Quickbooks, Horizontal Market, Canada Revenue Agency

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 237
• Professor: Zorana Svedic

Document Summary

A true understanding of technology starts not only from the technology we have today but also from the technology that emerged from. Internet and cellular devices came into wide-spread use during the 1990"s after world wide. Mobile computing, texting, smartphones and computerized social networking emerged in the early part of the 21st century. Eniac (elecronic numerical integrator and computer) designed in 1946 to calculate missile firing tables. Large, complex, and expensive and only ran one program at a time. Computer bug unexpected computer problems arose whena moth was caught between mechanical relays of the mark ii. Feruat first digital computer in canada (installed at uot 1952) One of only a small number of digital computers in north america. Mainframes large, room-sized devices based on vacuum tube technology. Second-generation mainframes introduced in the late 1950"s used transistors. Early machines were often sold without software assumption that companies themselves would develop the programs.