From Abacus to Laptop

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. Making their names at expositions.
	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!

International Exhibitions	result points	medal
Essen 2007 (2e ECTP) Belgica 2006 Essen 2006 (1e ECTP) Valencia 2004 Amphilex 2002 Belgica 2001	88% 88% 88% 82% 84% 82%	large vermeil large vermeil large vermeil vermeil large vermeil large vermeil