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Abacus
An oblong frame with rows of wires or grooves along which beads are slid, used for calculating. -
Napier's Rods
a set of graduated rods formerly used to do multiplication and division -
Pascaline Adding Machine
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. -
Weaving machine
makes possible in almost any loom the programmed raising of each warp thread independently of the others. -
Babbage's analytic engine
was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer -
difference engine
is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. -
Konrad Zuse - Z1 computer
First freely programmable computer. -
Atanasoff Berry computer
was one of the first electronic digital computing devices. The machine was not programmable, being designed only to solve systems of linear equations. -
Harvard Mark 1 computer
was an electro-mechanical computer. -
Colossus
the world's first electronic, digital, fixed-program, single-purpose computer with variable coefficients. -
ENIAC
(Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer. -
Manchester Baby computer
The world's first stored-program electronic digital computer successfully executed its first program on 21st June 1948. -
vauum tubes
A device controlling electric current through a vacuum in a sealed container. The container is often thin transparent glass in a roughly cylindrical shape. -
UNIVAC
The name of a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. -
the integrated circuit
A set of electronic circuits on one small plate ("chip") of semiconductor material, normally silicon. -
Steve Russell & MIT Spacewar Computer Game
The first computer game invented. -
Transistor Computer
A computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum tubes. -
The Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide. -
Microsoft
A multinational computer technology corporation. -
Cray-1
The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed, manufactured, and marketed by Cray Research. -
Large Scale Integration
Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating integrated circuits by combining thousands of transistors into a single chip. -
Macintosh
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. -
Tim Berners-Lee
A graduate of Oxford University, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing -
Internet Service Provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides access to the Internet. -
Personal Digital Assistant
A personal digital assistant (PDA), also known as a palmtop computer, is a mobile device that functions as a personal information manager.
