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COSC 1401: History of Computers

By summer.jones
  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage

    Designed first automatic calculator.
    Considered to be "father of the computer".
  • Herman Hollerith

    Herman Hollerith

    Created Hollerith Tabulating Machine (time card and computing).
    Hollerith is widely regarded as the father of modern machine data processing.
  • Z1 Computer

    Z1 Computer

    Mechanical calculator considered to be first computer.
    The Z1 contained almost all parts of a modern computer.
  • Eniac

    Eniac

    First high speed electronic computer. Initially created for the US Armed Forces.
  • First Gneration Computers

    First Gneration Computers

    The first computers used vacuum tubes for circuitry.
    They were very large often filling whole rooms.
  • UNIVAC

    UNIVAC

    First commercially successful electronic digital computer. UNIVAC is an acronym for Universal Automatic Computer.
  • Second Generation Computers

    Second Generation Computers

    The second computers used transistors for circuitry. This helped them become smaller and more efficient.
  • Jack Kilby

    Jack Kilby

    Created the worlds first integrated circuit.
    Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • BASIC

    BASIC

    BASIC was an easy to use programming language. It was disgned at Dartmouth College.
  • Third Generation Computers

    Third Generation Computers

    Users interacted with third generation computers through keyboards and monitors. Computers were now accessible to mass markets of people.
  • Fourth Generation Computers

    Fourth Generation Computers

    Fourth generations computers now use microprocessors. These computers also paved way for the internet.
  • Introduction of the GUI

    Introduction of the GUI

    GUI allows users to interact with the computer easily. Adds keyboards and mouse like devices used to easily control computers.
  • Altair Computer

    Altair Computer

    First personal computer. The average cost of an Altair Assembly Kit was $439.
  • Bill Gatss

    Bill Gatss

    Founder of Microsoft.
    Ranked as one of Forbes wealthiest men in the world.
  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs

    Inventor of Apple Computer Company.
    Also a co-founder and CEO of Pixar.
  • Apple II

    Apple II

    First operating system stored in Read Only Memore (ROM).
    Production of the Apple II Series did not cease until November 1993.
  • WordStar

    WordStar

    First word processing application.
  • VisiCalc

    VisiCalc

    First electronic spreadsheet application.
  • Osborne Computer

    Osborne Computer

    First portable computer. It weighed roughly 23.5 pounds.
  • Excel

    Excel

    First spreadsheet to use GUI.
  • PageMaker

    PageMaker

    First desktop publishing software.
  • Mosaic

    Mosaic

    Web browser that allowed users to view multimedia on the web. It was dicontinued 17 years ago in 1997.
  • Netscape

    Netscape

    Netscape is a computer company that is best know for its web browser Netscape Navigator.