COSC 1401 Class Assignment

  • Charles Babbage

    made the first automatic calculator and caled "father of computing"
  • Herman Hollerith

    thr first to take jacquard's punch-cord concept and apply to computers
  • Z1 Computer

    the first computer to have control unit and separate memory fuctions
  • Eniac

    first high speed computer electronic numerical integerter
  • Basic

    Used for businesses to create cobol, Algol and fortran
  • First Generation Computer

    Vnivac and other computers were the last to use vacum tubes to the store.
  • Univac

    universal automatic computer, first commercially successful electrinic digital computer
  • Jack Kilby

    the first to invent integrated circuit
  • Third Generation

    integrated circut generation
  • Second generation

    computers that used transistor were referred as second
  • Fouth Generatioon

    computer that use microprocessor chip
  • introduction of the GUI

    apple was the first to take full commercial advantage of GUI and was not invented by the computer
  • Altair computer

    when the computer was made/born.
  • Steve Jobs

    helped make Apple 1 and named it
  • Bill Gates

    started the program that computers can use by translations
  • Apple II

    4kbof Ram and operating system stored in Rom
  • Wordstar

    first word processing application
  • Visicale

    first electronic spreadsheet application
  • Osborne

    first portablecomputerand weighed 24.5 pounds
  • Excel

    one of the spreadsheets use to usde a graphic user inferface
  • Pagemaker

    First desktoppublishing software.
  • Mosaic

    it showed graphics as well as text.
  • Netscape

    web browser that became a predominant player in browser software.