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An oblong frame with rows of wires or grooves along which beads are slid, used for calculating.
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a set of graduated rods formerly used to do multiplication and division
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Pascal’s invention used a train of 8 moveable dials to add sum up to 8 numbers long. As one dial turned one full turn of numbers 1 through 10, the dial automatically turned the next dial.
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makes possible in almost any loom the programmed raising of each warp thread independently of the others.
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was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer
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is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.
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First freely programmable computer.
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was one of the first electronic digital computing devices. The machine was not programmable, being designed only to solve systems of linear equations.
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was an electro-mechanical computer.
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the world's first electronic, digital, fixed-program, single-purpose computer with variable coefficients.
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(Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer.
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The world's first stored-program electronic digital computer successfully executed its first program on 21st June 1948.
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A device controlling electric current through a vacuum in a sealed container. The container is often thin transparent glass in a roughly cylindrical shape.
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The name of a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation.
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A set of electronic circuits on one small plate ("chip") of semiconductor material, normally silicon.
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The first computer game invented.
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A computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum tubes.
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The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide.
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A multinational computer technology corporation.
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The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed, manufactured, and marketed by Cray Research.
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Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating integrated circuits by combining thousands of transistors into a single chip.
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The Macintosh marketed as Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. It is targeted mainly at the home, education, and creative professional markets.
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A graduate of Oxford University, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing
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An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides access to the Internet.
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A personal digital assistant (PDA), also known as a palmtop computer, is a mobile device that functions as a personal information manager.
