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The analytical machine
(1837) a proposed mechanical computer that was very general. It had arithmetic logic, control flow, conditional branching and loops. -
Holes in cards
(1896) Edge-notched cards, or McBee cards, were a manual data storage and manipulation technology. It was used for specialized data storage and cataloging applications through much of the 20th century. -
UNIVAC
,(1943 and 1946), UNIVAC is the name of a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. -
Von Neumann architecture
(1945), A computer architecture conceived by mathematician, John Von Neumann which forms the core of nearly every computer system in use today. -
ENIAC
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. It was the first electronic general purpose computer. -
high-level programming language
(1950) A high-level programming language is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer. -
first electronic spreadsheet
(1961) this is an interactive organization program that analyzes in a tabular form. -
UNIX operating system
(1969) Unix was developed by a group of employees at AT&T. It was first developed as an assembly language but then recoded in C. this is a multitasking and multiuser computer. -
Altair
(1975) 8800 was a microcomputer design from 1975 based on the Intel 8080 CPU. It became popular and was presented in news papers. -
Apple
, (1977) apple was founded in Cupertino California. At that time it was predominantly a personal computer. -
PC
,(1977) a PC is translated to a personal computer. This device applied a single user it was intended for interactive individual use. -
CRAY-1
(1976) this was a supercomputer designed, manufactured and marketed by Cray Research. It became the best known and best successful computer for its time. -
Windows
,(1981) the software that manages the computer hardware and also serves to bridge the gap between the computer hardware and programs. A word processor would be an example. -
Macintosh
(1984), This device became the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface. Apple facilitates all aspects of its hardware and creates its own operating system.