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Holes In Cards
Punched cards were widely used throughout the 19th century for controlling textile looms and in the late 19th and early 20th century for operating fairground organs and related instruments. This invention is still used today in schools to test taking. -
Analytical Machine
The Analytical Engine incorporated an arithmetic logic unit, control flow in the form of conditional branching and loops, and integrated memory, making it the first design for a general-purpose computer. It was the starting ground for computers today. -
UNIVAC
A line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. They pursued the idea of computing programs. -
ENIAC
ENIAC was designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory. Our weaponry how now evolved to put the U.S. at the top and have the most power. -
Von Neumann Architecture
Von Neumann architecture, a conceptual model of a computer architecture. The test run of the creation of the first computer. -
High-Level Programming Language
A high-level programming language is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer. We now have the ability to have something speak on our computer in many different lanuages. -
First Electronic Spreadsheet
VisiCalc was the first electronic spreadsheet on a microcomputer, and it helped turn the Apple II computer into a popular and widely used system. Lotus 1-2-3 was the leading spreadsheet when DOS was the dominant operating system. Excel now has the largest market share on the Windows and Macintosh platforms.[ -
Cray - 1
The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed, manufactured, and marketed by Cray Research. The first Cray-1 system was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976, and it went on to become one of the best known and most successful supercomputers in history. -
Unix Operating System
A multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, Michael Lesk and Joe Ossanna. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the influence of Unix in academic circles led to large-scale adoption of Unix -
Altair
The MITS Altair 8800 was a microcomputer design from 1975 based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January, 1975, issue of Popular Electronics. Today the Altair is widely recognized as the spark that led to the microcomputer revolution of the next few years -
Macintosh
The Macintosh, marketed as Mac, is a line of personal computers (PCs) designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. It is targeted mainly at the home, education, and creative professional markets, and includes the descendants of the original iMac -
Apple Inc.
Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad -
Personal Computer
A personal computer (PC) is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator. This contrasted with the batch processing or time-sharing models which allowed larger, more expensive minicomputer and mainframe systems to be used by many people. -
Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of graphical interface operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft. It was an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer market with over 90% market share, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in 1984 -
Abacus 3000 B.C.
The Abacus, also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool used primarily in parts of Asia for performing arithmetic processes. It was the beginning of what we know today as the calculator, which to society is a necessity.
