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Holes in cards
Holes in Cards, Contain digital information with the use of holes, or absence of holes, on a stiff card -
The analytical machine
- A large digital, mechanical computer. It could perform any calculation set and it was composed of four components: the mill, the store, the reader, and the printer.
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ENIAC
First electronic general-purpose computer. It was Turing-complete, digital, and could solve a whole range of computer problems. It was first designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory. -
Von Neumann architecture
A stored program computer that keeps its stored programs and data, in its RAM. Instruction fetch and a data operation cannot occur at the same time because they share a common bus -
UNIVAC
It handles both numbers and letters very well. Separates the problems between input and output. The first commercial customer to buy a UNIVAC was the Prudential Insurance Company. -
High-level programming language
FORTRAN was the first high level programming language. It is a generation of codes used to program the functions of a computer. -
PC
A personal computer used for only one person. It has software like word processing, spreadsheets, databases, Web browsers and e-mail clients, digital media playback, games, and more -
UNIX operating system
Made up of three parts; the kernel, the shell and the programs. Everything in UNIX is either a file or a process. -
Altair
Considered to be the first "personal computer". It‘s a computer that is easily affordable and easy to obtain -
Apple
Founded by Steve Jobs. It is a big company that manufactures lot of different technology products -
CRAY-1
The new machine was the first Cray design to use integrated circuits. -
First electronic spreadsheet
Used for organization and analysis of information in tabular form. It is a computer form of a worksheet. -
Macintosh
Series of personal computers. It was the first computer to have a mouse and a graphical user interface. It was developed and marketed by apple. -
Windows
A series of graphical interface operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.