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the analytical machine
This invention was proposed as a mechanical General-purpose computer. This computer was very slow but sparked intrest with other inventors to improve it. -
holes in cards
These are items that contain data to operate machinery or other objects. It was also useed for data processing. -
Von Neumann architecture
An electronic digital colputer. Which is now refered to as a sstored-program computer. This had a memory to store and fetch data and many other things. -
ENIAC
This stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Compute. It was the first electronic general-purpose computer. it was a thousand times faster than electro-mechanicle machine. -
Altair
The basic machine consisted of five cards, including the CPU on one and memory on another. -
PC
PC stands for personal computer. Software applications for most personal computers are word processing, spreadsheets, databases, Web browsers and e-mail clients, digital media playback, games. Modern PC's often have connections to the Internet.