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Holes In Cards
A piece of stiff paper that contained either commands for controlling automated machinery or data for data processing applications. -
The Analytical Machine
A proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. -
ENIAC
The first electronic general-purpose computer. It was Turing-complete, digital, and could solve "a large class of numerical problems" through reprogramming. -
UNIVAC
Universal Automatic Computer. UNIVAC is 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. -
high-level programming language
A programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer. -
First Electronic Spreadsheet
A spreadsheet is an interactive computer application program for organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. -
PC
A general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities and original sale price make it useful for individuals. -
UNIX operating system
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. -
Altair
A microcomputer designed in 1975 based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue of popular electronics. -
CRAY-1
A supercomputer designed, manufactured and marketed by Cray Research. -
Apple
An American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. Founded by Steve Jobs. -
Macintosh
A personal computer which uses concepts from the Xerox PARC Xerox Alto. The idea started 1978 with Jef Raskin, who envisioned an easy-to-use, low-cost computer for the average consumer. -
Windows
A 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.
