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Holes in Cards
A piece of stiff paper that had holes punched in a certain order, which was used as a command sequence for controlling automated machinery or use for data processing applications. -
The Analytical Machine
Proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by Charles Babbage, an English mathematician and computer pioneer. -
von Neumann Architecture
A computer architecture based on the description given by mathematician and physicists John Von Neumann in 1945. -
UNIVAC
A line of electronic digital stored-program computers. -
ENIAC
First electronic general-purpose computer. Is also known as the “Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer”. -
High Level Programming Language
A programming language that allows a programmer to write programs that are more or less independent of a particular type of computer. Includes C, FORTRAN, or Pascal. -
PC
A general-purpose computer for individuals. Known also as a Personal Computer. -
Altair
A microcomputer based on the Intel 8080 CPU. -
CRAY-1
a supercomputer designed, manufactured, and marketed by Cray Research. -
Apple
An American multinational technology company. -
VisiCalc
Short for visible calculator, and was the first spreadsheet computer program for PCs. -
Macintosh
A series of PCs designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. -
Windows
A meta-family of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.
