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Holes in cards
Cards are stiff pieces of paper that contained commands. Commands and data are represented by holes in the card. -
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Von Neumann Architecture
The first written description of how an electronic computer should store programs and processes information. -
ENIAC
The first electronic general purpose computer. It was capable to be reprogrammed to solve “a large class of numerical problems”. -
Altair
Altair A “microcomputer” made off of the intel 8080 CPU. -
UNIVAC
An electronical computer that contains thousands of vacuum tubes which use punch cards for outputting and storing data. -
High-level programming language
It is a programming language that may hide important parts of computing systems. -
PC
PC An inexpensive computer meant for an individual user which is all based on the microprocessor. -
UNIX operating system
UNIX The first program to be written in a high level programming language. -
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Cray-1
A super-computer. -
First electronic spreadsheet
VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet computer program for computers, originally for apple 2. -
Macintosh
An easy to use low cost computer for the average consumer. -