History of Computer Technology

By anthony.w

  • Pascaline - Mechanical

    Pascaline - Mechanical
    Created by Blaise Pascaline. First Mechanical Device. It was created to carry the burden of his father working as a supervisor of taxes. It handled Arithmetical labor.

  • Stepped Reckoner - Mechanical

    Stepped Reckoner - Mechanical
    Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz invented the Stepped Reckoner and his famous cylinders that added direct multiplication and division to the Pascaline.

  • Telegraph - Electro Mechanical

    Telegraph - Electro Mechanical
    Created by Samuel F.J Morse. The invention of Morse Code was modified to emboss the paper with dots and dashes and made the telegraph.

  • Telephone & Radio - Electro Mechanical

    Telephone & Radio - Electro Mechanical
    Created by Alexander Graham Bell & Thomas Augustus Watson. Used a liquied transmitter. The first radio that shows bi-directional transimission of clear speech.

  • Manchester Mark 1 - First Generation

    Manchester Mark 1 - First Generation
    Created by the Victoria University of Manchester. The Mark 1 was to provide a computing resource within the university, to allow researchers to gain experience in the practical use of computers. It's design soon became the prototype for other computers.

  • Ferranti Mark 1 - First Generation

    Ferranti Mark 1 - First Generation
    Created by the Ferranti company. The world's first COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE general-purpose electronic computer. It was more put together and commercialised version of the Manchester Mark 1 computer.

  • IBM 1401 - Second Generation

    IBM 1401 - Second Generation
    Created by IBM. Known as the Model T of the computer business, because it was the first mass-produced digital, all-transistorized, business computer that could be afforded by many businesses worldwide. The monthly rental for a 1401 was $2,500 and up, depending on the configuration.

  • Burroughs B5000 - Third Generation

    Burroughs B5000 - Third Generation
    Created by the Burroughs company.The system can be considered the first of the "third generation" of computer systems. It included virtual memory as well as support for multiprogramming and multiprocessing.

  • The MIR - Fourth Generation

    The MIR - Fourth Generation
    First Fourth Generation Computer. Developed by a group headed by Victor Glushkov. It was designed as a relatively small-scale computer for use in engineering and scientific applications and contained a hardware implementation of a high-level programming language.

  • The SCAMP - Fourth Generation

    The SCAMP - Fourth Generation
    The second fourth generation computer. The IBM Los Gatos Scientific Center developed a portable computer prototype called SCAMP (Special Computer APL Machine Portable)