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A calculating tool that was in use centuries before the adoption of the written modern numeral system and is still widely used by merchants, traders and clerks in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere.
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A piece of stiff paper that contained either commands for controlling automated machinery or data for data processing applications. Both commands and data were represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions.
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A proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage.
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A computer architecture based on that described by the mathematician and physicist John von Neumann and others in the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC.
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UNIVAC information:The name of a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. Later the name was applied to a division of the Remington Rand company and successor organizations. UNIVAC is an acronym for UNIVersal Automatic Computer.
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The first electronic general-purpose computer. (1946)high-level programming language- A high-level programming language is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer.
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An interactive computer application for organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form.
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A general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sale price make it useful for individuals, and is intended to be operated directly by an end-userwith no intervening computer time-sharing models that allowed larger, more expensive minicomputer and mainframe systems to be used by many people, usually at the same time.
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A family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, developed in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
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Cray link: An American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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Altair LinkA microcomputer designed in 1975 based on the Intel 8080 CPU.
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Apple's LinkAn American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sellsconsumer electronics, computer software, and online services.
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Link to Current Macs:The Macintosh is a series of personal computers (PCs) designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc.
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Window's linkA metafamily of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft. It consists of several families of operating systems, each of which cater to a certain sector of the computing industry.
