COSC 1401

By ccrouch

  • Charles Babbage

    Designed the first automatic calculator, called the Analytical Engine.

  • Herman Hollerith

    Applied Jacquards punch card concept and apply it to computing with his Hollerith Tabulating Machine.

  • Z1 Computer

    A mechanical calculator, created by Konrad zuse

  • Eniac

    Electrical Numerical Integrator and ccomputer, sponsored by government to calculate settings for weapons.

  • Univac

    Universal Automatic Computer, was the first commercially sucsseful electronic computer.

  • Jack Kilby

    Created worlds first integrated curcuit, containing thousands of transistors.

  • Basic

    Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

  • Introduction of the Gui

    Graphical User Interface, Apple introduced the Lisa, the first sucessful personal computer contained GUI.

  • Altair Computer

    256 bytes of memory, no keyboard or monitor. Switches on fron twere used to enter data into the machine code(1s and 0s)

  • Apple II

    The Apple II featured a color monitor, sound and game paddles. 4 kb of RAM. Optional floppy disk to load programs.

  • Visicalc

    First electronic spreedsheet application.

  • Wordstar

    The First Word Processing Application

  • Bill Gates

    Wrote the OS program for the IMB PC.

  • Osborne Computer

    First portable computer. Featured a 5 inch screen with 64kb of RAM

  • Excel

    One of the first spreedsheets to use a graphical user interface.

  • Mosaic

    The first web browser that could handle graphics and text.

  • Netscape

    A web browser launched by a team of developers which soon became a predominant player in browser software.

  • Steve Jobs

    With the help of Steve Wozniac, they built the first personel computer the Apple I, annd then formed the Apple Computer Company.