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holes in cards
"A punched card, punch card, IBM card, or Hollerith card is a piece of stiff paper that contained either commands for controlling automated machinery or data for data processing applications. Both commands and data were represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions."(wiki) -
The Analytical Machine
"The Analytical Engine incorporated an arithmetic logic unit, control flow in the form of conditional branching and loops, and integrated memory, making it the first design for a general-purpose computer that could be described in modern terms as Turing-complete."(wiki) -
Von Neumann Architecture
"Von Neumann Architecture is a design architecture for an electronic digital computer with subdivisions of a processing unit consisting of anarithmetic logic unit and processor registers, a control unit containing an instruction register and program counter, a memory to store both data and instructions, external mass storage, and input and output mechanisms."(wiki) -
UNIVAC
"UNIVAC s the name of a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation." (wiki) -
ENIAC
"ENIAC, also known as Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first electronic general-purpose computer."(wiki) -
high-level programming language
"A high-level programming language is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer." (wiki)
