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Weaving
In 1801, Joseph Jacquard made a mechanical loom. They used to be controlled by punched cards with holes in. It was the first machine to use punched cards to control an operation sequence.It is important as it is related to the development of computer programming. -
Colossus Computer
This was the first computer that was electronic and digital that was programmable and they were used by British codebreakers during World War 2. It was originally made to solve mathematical problems. -
Neumann
The principal feature of a von Neumann computer is that the program and any data are both stored together, usually in a slow-to-access storage medium such as a hard disk, and transferred as required to a faster, and more volatile storage medium (RAM) for execution or processing by a central processing unit (CPU). -
RAM
Random-Access-Memory is a type of computer data- storage. It lets random data to be accessed very quickly from any storage location. -
Baby Computer
In Manchester the computer that became nicknamed "Baby" became the first stored-program machine executed its first program in 1948. -
Transistor - William Shockley
William Shockley was a co creator of the transistor. Transistors replaced vacuum tubes in computers meaning that computers could be much more compact and used less power. -
Hard Disk Drive
A hard disk drive is a data storage device that stores and retrieves digital information using rapidly rotating disks. -
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM), or IBM, is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology -
Toshiba
Toshiba is a Japanese company that make electronics and computer items.They made things like the colour vidoeo phone and laptop PCs. -
Storage Evolution
Storage devices are now a lot cheaper and they can be a lot more compact. They can also store a lot more data on them than they used to.
