programming

By J3nkins

  • Joseph-Marie Jacquard

    Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents an automatic loom controlled by punched cardsThe years that followed were dominated by the use of punched cards for computing. The users used to submit programming assignments to a computer center using stacks of cards. The programs used to be queued for processing and execution.
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  • first digital electronic compute

    John V. Atanasoff devised the first digital electronic computer

  • electromechanical Z machines

    The electromechanical Z machines by Konrad Zuse proved being an important step in the evolution of computers.

  • 50s

    Desktop mechanical calculators were built during the 1930s. During the 1950s and the '60s, electronic desktop calculators came up. Analog computational technologies predominated this period.

  • first transistor computer

    Bell Labs introduced its first transistor computer. Transistors made computers energy-efficient

  • first mini computer

    DEC launched the first mini computer known as PDP-8

  • predecessor of the Internet

    The US Department of Defense founded the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). It was established with intent to develop a computer network and is the predecessor of the Internet.

  • microprocessors

    Microcomputers came up with microprocessors and Ted Hoff at Intel, introduced 4-bit 4004.

  • Xerox Alto

    A minicomputer that was called Xerox Alto was developed during this year. It was an important milestone in the development of personal computers

  • first portable computer

    Altair came up with the first portable computer. The foundation of the present-day relationship between portability and computing was laid way back in 1975! Tandem computers, the first computers with online transaction processing capacities were born during this period.

  • half a million computers

    By 1979, more than half a million computers were in use in the United States. This number crossed 10 million by 1983.

  • intel processors

    Intel introduced the 80386 processor that consists of a 16MHz processor.

  • operating system

    It was in 1991 that Linux came up. It is a Unix-like operating system, which is a free software. It was during this year that Minix 1.5 was developed and Macintosh came up with System 7.
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  • windows

    Windows 2000, which hit the markets in 2000, was the first Windows server operating system to drop the 'NT' suffixed to its name. Windows ME, which was sold during this year, was the last operating system in the Windows 9x line. Red Hat Linux 6.2E also came up during 2000.
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  • windows vista

    Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 came up in 2008. It was also during this very year that Windows XP Service Pack 3 was released.

  • touch screen

    windows comes out with a touch screen computer