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Period: Jan 24, 1500 to
Computer History Timeline
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Napier's Rod
Napier's rods' are made up of 10 rectangular blocks with multiples of a different number on each of the four sides. -
Pascaline
Invented by Blaise Pascal. It was the first calculating machine. The introduction of the Pascaline is no commercial success. Compared with the cost of labor, the Pascaline is too expensive. -
Leibniz
Invented by Gottfried Willheim Leibniz. Leibniz was a strong advocate of the binary system. -
Punch Card System
The Punch card system was first used around 1725. Joseph Marie Jacquard greatly improved it in 1801. -
Difference Machine
Automatic, and mechanical calculator that is designed to arrange polynomical functions. -
Analytical Engine
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IBM
IBM stands for International Business Machines.The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. -
Z1
The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. -
Colossus
Invented by Tommy Flowers. It is the world's first electronic, digital, programmable computer. -
LEO
First Business Computer. -
EDVAC
EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was one of the earliest electronic computers. Unlike its predecessor the ENIAC, it was binary rather than decimal, and was a stored program computer.Like the ENIAC, the EDVAC was built for the U.S. Army's Ballistics Research Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Ground by the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering. -
FORTRAN
Programming Language. -
PDP - 1
PDP-1 stands for Programmable Date Processor-1. It was the first computer in Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series and was first produced in 1960. The PDP-1 was also the original hardware for playing history's first game on a minicomputer, Steve Russell's Spacewar!. -
Mainframe Computers
Mainframe computers (colloquially referred to as "big iron"[1]) are powerful computers used primarily by corporate and governmental organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and transaction processing. The term originally referred to the large cabinets that housed the central processing unit and main memory of early computers.[2][3] Later, the term was used to distinguish high-end commercial machi -
UNIX
UNIX is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs. -
World Wide Web
Invented by Tim Burners Lee. The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. -
Apple II
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iPod
iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod classic, the touchscreen iPod touch, the compact iPod nano, and the ultra-compact iPod shuffle. -
Projection Keyboard
A projection keyboard is a form of computer input device whereby the image of a virtual keyboard is projected onto surface: when a user's fingers are placed on the projected "keys", the device translates them into keystrokes. -
Google
Google is an American multinational Internet and software corporation specialized in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google was made public on Augusr 19, 2004 but was made on September 4, 1998. -
Youtube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. -
Apple Macbook
The MacBook was a brand of Macintosh notebook computers built by Apple Inc. First introduced in May 2006, it replaced the iBook and 12-inch PowerBook series of notebooks as a part of the Apple–Intel transition. -
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