From Abacus to Laptop

International Exhibitions	result points	medal	Changes
Skivaryd (Zweden) 2011 Lissabon 2010 Essen 2007 (2e ECTP) Belgica 2006 Essen 2006 (1e ECTP) Valencia 2004 Amphilex 2002 Belgica 2001 Exphimo (Mondorf - Lux.) 1998	91% + Special price 88% + special price 88% 88% 88% 82% 84% 82% 85%	gold large vermeil large vermeil large vermeil large vermeil vermeil vermeil vermeil gold	9 pages changed added 32 pages added 16 pages translation in English

National/Regional/Pre-comp Exhibitions	result points	medal
Bruphila (Brussel) 1999 Befiten (Begijnendijk) 1999 Carolophilex (Charleoi) 1997 Varithema (Wetteren) 1994 Antwerpen 1993 Befiten (Begijnendijk) 1992 KeTheFil (Nossegem) 1990 (pre-comp.) Phil'helpe (La Hulpe) 1990	88% + Price "E.H. De Troyer" 87% 80% 79% 74% + special price 75% 82% 82% + special price	large vermeil large vermeil vermeil vermeill silver large silver vermeil vermeil

Title pages
	1. What's the history of the 'great invention'?
	1.1 The earliest counting tools. 1.2 The great inventors at the start of an automating process. 1.3 The mechanical counting machines at a glance. 1.4 The electrical calculators. 1.5 At the dawn of the computer age. 1.6 What about mainframes and mini-computers? 1.7 The area of Personal Computers. *()** 1.8. Calculating became IT industry.
	2. The Physics of a computer, the hardware.
	2.1. What's in the box? 2.2. The oldest input device, the keyboard. 2.3. The soon forgotten punch card. 2.4. The paper punch tape and the magnetic tape. *()** 2.5. From disk to floppy, from floppy to CD. 2.6. All the differences in printing. 2.7. Coding with bars. 2.8. Point, touch or read your input. 2.9. The Input/Output on the terminal. 2.10. What is multimedia?
	3. The invisible intelligence, the software.
	3.1. From mechanical to electronic thinking. 3.2. Languages as many as needed. 3.3. Hello, robot! 3.4. Software for letters, graphs and databases. *() 3.5. Know your weaknesses! ()*
	4. Communicating in one big world.
	4.1. Specialists today in the beginning. 4.2. Replacing the old telex network by ISDN-net. 4.3. Using modems and satellites. 4.4. Other computer networks. 4.5. Internet, one big world!