What does «computadora» mean in Spanish?
- It is an automatic machine capable of performing complex mathematical calculations and other types of data processing. In particular, computers began as a machine that could only perform mathematical calculations. Throughout history, the technology application of this machine has been greatly modified both in the working parts (mechanical, electromechanical and electronic), and in the methods of data representation (analog and digital) and in other characteristics (internal architecture, programming, etc.). In this way, and like the television, the computer is the symbol of the technological means that most changed the most human habits after World War II until today: its invention contributed to the birth and development of modern computing, which marked the advent of the so-called third industrial revolution and the information society.