HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

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  • CREATION OF THE PASCALINE

    Pascaline was a machine used to make accounts. It was created by Blaise Pascal. When he was 19 years old, he had the idea to facilitate the tasks of his father. His invention allowed adding and subtracting two numbers directly and doing multiplication and division by repetition. In 1645 after 3 years of research and 50 prototypes, he presented his first machine. In this machine the data was represented by the position of wheels and gears.

  • CREATION OF BYNARY SYSTEM

    The binary code, is a system of numbers in which numbers are represented using only two numbers: 0 and 1. It is one of the systems used in computers, since they work internally with voltage levels. The modern binary system was created by Leibniz, in the seventeenth century. He mentions the binary symbols used by Chinese mathematicians and used the 0 and the 1to replace them.

  • CREATION OF THE ANALYTICAL MACHINE

    The analytical machine was the first computer. It was created by Charles Babbage. The British government supported him to create the project. This device was a creation used to work on repeated sums. The features of this machine included a memory that could store up to 1000 numbers.

  • THE FIRST INTELLIGENT PHONE IS CREATED

    The first real smartphone was made in 1992. It was called Simon Personal Communicator, and it was created by IBM more than 15 years before Apple launched the iPhone. Simón from IBM was the first telephone to configure the functions of a cell phone and a PDA. It was launched with the price of $ 899 with a service contract ($ 1,435 in today's dollars).

  • MESSAGING NETWORK "TELEX" WAS CREATED

    Like the Volkswagen Beetle and the motorway systems, Telex message network emerges. Telex began as a way of sending military messages, but it soon became a worldwide network of official and commercial text messages that will continue in some countries until the 2000's. Telex uses teleprinters, which date back to the 1910s for its use in telegraphy. The wireless versions of Telex connected remote regions of the developing world.

  • THE FIRST ROBOT THAT "RESPONDS" TO STIMULES IS SHOWN

    Built by Westinghouse, the retractable-based Elektro robot responds to the rhythm of voice commands and offers pre-recorded jokes at 78 rpm records. He was presented at the World Fair, and was able to move his head and arms ... and even "smoked" cigarettes. This was one of the first examples of robots which responded to stimuli.

  • THE 3 LAWS OF ROBOTICS

    The 3 laws of robotics are:
    -A robot can not harm a human being or, by inaction, allow a human being to suffer damage.
    -A robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except when such orders come into conflict with the First Law.
    -A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

  • MARK MACHINE 1,2,3 IS INVENTED

    At Harvard University, the Mark 1 machine was designed and built by a team led by Howard H. Aiken. This device was based on the Analytical Engine created by Charles Babbage. The computer used electromagnetic signals to move the mechanical parts. This computer took 6 seconds to do a multiplication and 12 to make a division. Mark 1 made improvements, thus obtaining the Mark 2, Mark 3 and Mark 4.

  • THE FIRST MICROCHIP IS DEVELOPED

    It was developed in 1958 by Engineer Jack St. Clair Kilby, just months after being hired by Texas Instruments.
    The most common elements of electronic equipment of the time were the so-called "vacuum tubes".
    In 1958 Jack Kilby set out to change things. Then he created the first electronic circuit whose components, both active and passive, were arranged in a piece of material, which took up half the space of a clip.

  • THE LAPTOP IS INVENTED

    This is a computer that, as its name says, is portable. That is, it is transportable and quite easy to load.
    The Epson HX-20 was the first portable computer in history. This computer has a keyboard, rechargeable nickel-cadmium battery, a 120-by-32-pixel LCD screen, two Hitachi microprocessors, a matrix-sized dot-matrix printer and an integrated micro-cassette data storage device.

  • THE FIRST WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM IS CREATED

    The first version of Microsoft Windows, version 1.0. It was presented in November 1985. It competed with Apple's operating system. It lacked a certain degree of functionality and achieved very little popularity. Windows 1.0 was not a complete operating system; rather it was a graphic extension of the MS-DOS.