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The Colossus
Tommy Flowers created the Colossus computer during WWII to decrypt encrypted signals from the German teleprinter Lorenz cipher, and it is regarded as one of the first programmable digital computers. At the time, the Colossus machines were top-secret, and their existence was not generally acknowledged until decades later. -
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1st Generation of Computers
The First Generation of Computers lasted from 1946 to 1959 and it was characterised by the vacuum tubes, which were used during the first generation of computers. -
ENIAC
On February 14, 1946, ENIAC (Eletronic Numerical Interpreter and Calculator) was born, also known by its translation into Spanish as “Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.” -
EDSAC
The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), built at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, ran its initial programs in 1949. It was the first regularly used stored-program computer. -
UNIVAC I
UNIVAC I was the world’s 1st commercially electronic computing device. It absolutely was created by Eckert and Mauchly in 1947. This milestone marks the transition from experimental machines to practical computing devices. -
IBM-701
On April 29, 1952, firm president Thomas J. Watson Jr. notified the owners of the development of what would be "the most advanced, most flexible, and fastest computer in the world," the IBM 701, also known as the Defense Calculator. -
IBM-650
The IBM 650 was one of the earliest large-scale computers produced. It was announced in 1953, and 2,000 units were manufactured between 1954 (first sale) and 1962. It is a magnetic roller-based data processing system. -
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The 2nd generation of computers
The second generation of computers lasted from 1959 to 1965 when the vacuum tubes of the first generation were replaced by transistors. -
IBM-1620
The IBM-1620 was announced on October 21st, 1959 as one of the "economic scientific equipment" widely used in universities and training centrers. -
CDC 1604
Seymour Cray, who went on to design supercomputers, and his team at the Control Data Corporation (CDC), created the 1604 as the most powerful computer of its day. Real-time data processing, weapon system control, large-scale scientific problem solving, and commercial applications were all possible with the CDC 1604. -
IBM 7094
On January 15, 1962, IBM unveiled the 7094 computer, which was designed to be utilized in scientific-technological applications that demanded high computational capability at the time. -
CDC 3600
The CDC 3600 had 32,700 48-bit words of magnetic core memory and was capable of running FORTRAN. The CDC 3600 was praised for its smoked glass panels and "solid and stunning" design. Seymour Cray has done much of the basic architecture design work on the CDC 3000 series systems. -
UNIVAC 1108
J. Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly were the primary designers. It was part of the UNIVAC 1100 series of computers starting in 1964, when thin film memory was replaced with integrated circuits and smaller and faster cores were utilized for memory. -
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3rd generation of computers
The third generation of computers lasted from 1964-1971 and it is characterized by the incorporation of integrated circuits that replaced transistors. Integrated circuits are silicon chips of a few square millimeters with various components that construct a miniature electronic circuit and are covered in a plastic/ceramic encapsulation. -
Pascal programming language
Apart from COBOL and FORTRAN programming languages taht appeared in the second generation of computers, Pascal, another computer programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth of Switzerland, appeared in 1970 to teach systematic programming. It emphasizes the use of conditional and loop control structures in an organized manner without the use of GOTO instructions. -
IBM System/370
IBM introduces the IBM System/360, a line of mainframe computers that are model-to-model compatible. This standardized architecture creates a new industry standard and is essential for computer adoption. -
Intel 4004
The Intel 4004 was the world's first microprocessor, a 4-bit CPU placed in a 16-pin chip with 2,300 transistors. -
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The 4th generation of computers
The 4th gen lasted from 1971-1980. Fourth generation computers employed VLSI circuits that enabled the development of 4th generation microcomputers. Computers of the 4th generation were increasingly powerful, compact, reliable and economical. As a result, the Personal Computer (PC) revolution was born. Time sharing, real-time networks and distributed operating systems were used. This generation makes use of all high-level languages such as C, C++, DBASE, and so on. -
VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated circuit)
It is a technology that enables the integration of hundreds or even millions of transistors onto a single silicon chip. This is accomplished by employing modern manufacturing techniques that allow component sizes to be compressed to the nanoscale scale. -
Apple II
In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak released the first microcomputer known as Apple II. It features a color display, a keyboard, and expansion slots, making it accessible to a broader audience. -
First Atari console
The Atari 2600 is a video game console that was released in September 1977 under the name Atari VCS (Video Computer System), becoming the first video game system to achieve widespread success and popularizing interchangeable cartridges. -
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The 5th generation of computers
The fith generation of computers is from 1980 till the present and it is characterized by more advanced microporcessors, the development of artifitial intelligence, advanced robotics... -
RISC (Reduced instruction set computer)
For battery-powered devices where energy efficiency is critical, RISC gives great performance per watt. A RISC processor performs only one action per instruction. The operation execution time is reduced by completing it in a single cycle. -
World Wide Web (WWW)
In 1990, the fist website appered, developedd by Tim Berners-Lee and this is how the term www came out, which means World Wide Web. -
Google
Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin. -
Internet of Thing (IoT)
The Internet of Things is a term coined in 1999 by the computer scientist Kevin Ashton. The IoT is the collective network of connected devices and the technology that facilitates communication between devicces and the cloud, as well as amongst the devices themselves. -
Android Operating System
The First Android Operating sytem was released on September 23rd, 2008 by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google -
4G network
4G networks provided much faster data rates, lower latency, and more efficient radio frequency spectrum utilization. Today, 4G networks account for more than half of all mobile connections. -
DeppMind IA
DeepMind is an artificial intelligence system that employs machine learning to address issues that computers have historically been unable to solve. -
ChatGPT
ChatGPT, an OpenAI-developed big language model-based chatbot, was released on November 30, 2022. Users can refine and lead a conversation to the desired duration, format, style, level of detail, and language using ChatGPT.