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Punched Cards
Holes in cards are materials such as wood or paper with holes punched in them in order to issue commands for controlling automated machinery or provide data for data processing applications. -
Analytical Machine
An analytical machine is a proposed mechanical general purpose computer designed by Charles Babbage. -
Von Neumann Architecture
Von Neumann architecture is a design architecture for a stored program computer with subdivisions in the processing unit. -
ENIAC
The ENIAC was the first electronic that was general- purpose. The project behind the ENIAC was funded by the US military and initially designed to calculate artillery firing tables. -
UNIVAC
UNIVAC is a line of electronic stored- program computers and was the first general- purpose computers made for commercial use. -
High- Level Programming Language
High-level programming language refers to the higher level of abstraction from machine language. Rather than dealing with registers, memory addresses and call stacks, high-level languages deal with variables, arrays, objects, complex arithmetic, or boolean expressions. -
Altair
The MITS Altair 8800 was a microcomputer designed in 1975 based on the Intel 8080 CPU. This computer was the world's first personal computer.
