computer evolusion technology

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    The technology timespan

  • Worlds First Computer

    The english mathmatican Charles Babbage has conceives of a steam driven calculating of a machine that will be able to compute tables of the numbers.

  • Punch Card System

    This guy name Herman Hollerith has design a "Punch Card System" to be calculate the 1880 census, so accomplishing the task in just about three years and saving the government $5 million. He has establishes a company that would ultimately become the IBM.

  • Computer without gears,cams,belts, or shafts

    J.V. Atanasoff a professor of physics and mathematics Lowa State University, attempts to build the first computer without gears, cams, belts or shafts.

  • The computer that can solve equations

    Atanasoff and his graduate student that his name is Clifford Berry, have designed a computer that solve about 29 equations simultaneously.
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    Eleectronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC)

    Two University of Pensylvannia professors- John Mauchly and J.Presper Eckert-built the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC). Considered the grandfather of digital computers, it fills a 20 foot by 40foot room and has 18,000 vacuum tubes.

  • UNIVAC

    Mauchly and Presper leave the University of Pennsylvania and receive funding from the census bureau to build the UNIVAC the first commercial computer for business and coverment applications.

  • Cobol and IBM 701 EDPM

    Grace Hopper develops the first computer language, which eventually becomes known as COBOL. Inventor Thomas Johnson Watson, Jr., son of IBM CEO Thomas Johnson Watson, Sr., conceives the IBM 701 EDPM to help the United Nations keep tabs on Korea during the war.

  • The Fortra Programming

    The Fortra Programming language is born.

  • Integrated Circuit

    Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circult, known as the computer chip.

  • Mouse and a Graphical User Interface (GUI)

    Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern computer, with a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI). This marks the evolution of the computer from a specialized machine for scientists and mathematicians to technology that is more accessible to the general public.

  • The First Dynamic Access Memory (DRAM) Chip.

    The newly formed intel unveils the intel 1103, the "First Dynamic Access Memory" (DRAM) chip.

  • Floppy Disk

    Alan Shugart leads a team of IBM engineers who invent the "Floppy Disk," allowing the data to be shared among computers.

  • The Ethernet

    Robert Metcalfe, a member of the research for xerox, Robert develops the "Ethernet" it is used for conneting multiple computers.

  • The IBM 1500

    IBM 1500 becomes the first commercially available portable computer.

  • Word Processing

    Word Processing becomes a reality as Micro Pro international releases "Word Star".