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History of computers
History of compuers -
Difference engine
The first mechanical machine -
Analytical engine
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The turing engine
Used to break the german attack codes -
collosus
Mechaninical calculator -
Stored Program Computers
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The plankalkul
FIrst computer coding program -
The ENIAC
It could do 5,000 operations per second, 1000 times the speed of other computers back then -
Mini Computers
computer that needed no air conditioning and required only one operator -
The CDC 6600
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IBM 1301 Disk Drive
IBM's !301 Disk Drive was announced. The disk drive used a disk rotating at 1,800 RPM and could contain a maximum of 28 million characters -
The CDC 7600
a supercomputer -
Floppy Disks
Sometime in 1976, 5 1/4 inch flexible disk drives were developed in order to fit into smaller desktop computers.