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Joseph Jacquard invents mechanical loom
The Jacquard loom controls the weacing movement by encoding a pattern to be produced, including very compex patterns. It's controlled by punch cards, and this idea was part of the earliest computers developed. -
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Computer History
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Colossus Computer
The worlds first electronic, digital, programmable computer. They were used during WWII to help decode messages; 10 were in use by the end of the war. -
Baby (SSEM) built
Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine was the world's first stored-program computer. It had a 32-bit word length and a memory of 32 words, and was designed to be simple. -
Von Neumann architecture
A stored-program digital computer is one that keeps its programmed instructions, as well as its data, in read-write, random-access memory (RAM). It helped shape modern computer with itr's way of storing programs and data in the same memory. -
RAM
Random Access Memory. -
William Shockley
Co-invented the transistor. He ran 'Shockley semiconductor' enterprises, which was a part of what became Silicon Valley, which revoluntionised computing. -
Hard Disk
The IBM 350 Disk File, invented by Reynold Johnson, was introduced in 1956 with the IBM 305 RAMAC computer.It had a total capacity of 5 million characters (5MB). -
IBM
IBM created the floppy disk in 1967, in 1968 Dr. Robert Dennard at the IBM T.J. Watson Research center is granted U.S. patent 3,387,286 describing a one-transistor DRAM cell. -
Storage
As the 1980s began, hard disk drives were a rare and very expensive optional feature on personal computers (PCs); however by the late '80s, hard disk drives were standard on all but the cheapest PC. Optical Printers. -
Storage Evolution
1990, a normal hard drive held about 40 MB, with more expensive options able to store more than 100 MB.
