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holes in cards
A punched card or punch card is a piece of stiff paper that contains digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. -
The Analytical Machine
The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. -
von Neumann Architecture
The von Neumann architecture, also known as the von Neumann model and Princeton architecture, is a computer architecture based on that described in 1945 by the mathematician and physicist John von Neumann -
ENIAC
ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. -
UNIVAC
UNIVAC is the name of a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. -
high-level programming language
A high-level language is a programming language such as C, FORTRAN, or Pascal that enables a programmer to write programs that are more or less independent of a particular type of computer. -
UNIX operating system
Unix is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, developed in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others. -
Altair
The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU. -
PC
Personal computer history doesn't begin with IBM or Microsoft, although Microsoft was an early participant in the fledgling PC industry. The first personal computers, introduced in 1975, came as kits: The MITS Altair 8800, followed by the IMSAI 8080, an Altair clone. -
CRAY-1
The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed, manufactured and marketed by Cray Research. -
Apple
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. -
First Electronic Spreadsheet
A spreadsheet is an interactive computer application for organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. -
Macintosh
The Macintosh is a series of personal computers (PCs) designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. -
Windows
Microsoft Windows is a metafamily of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.
