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Holes in Cards
Stiff cards with punched holes, used to opporate a machine. For instance, a power loom that has a weave based on a pattern that is automatically read. -
The Analytical Mechine
This machine was designed by Charles Babbage and was the first design for a computer that could do multiple things, like computers today. -
Von Neumann Architecture
This describes a design architecture for an electronic digital computer with subdivisions of a processing unit consisting of an arithmetic 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. The meaning of the term has evolved to mean a stored-program computer in which an instruction fetch and a data operation cannot occur at the same time -
UNIVAC
UNIVAC is the name of a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. -
ENIAC
First general-purpose computer. -
High-Level Programming Language
Fortran was the first high-level programming language, and it was invented by Hohn Backus. It is a language used to write programs and is between human and machine languages. This is still in use today. -
Personal Computers
Personal computers are ones that individuals keep for themselves and are not public or shared, such as laptops and the computers on your desk at home.
