-
The first binary computer; called the Z1, first freely programmable computer.One of the most difficult aspects of doing a large calculation with either a slide rule or a mechanical adding machine is keeping track of all intermediate results and using them
-
Some 28,000 peolpe killed from 8.3 eathquake
-
Hitler invaded Poland from the west; two weeks later, France & Britain declared war on Germany
-
(prototype) first computer machine to use electricity, vacuum tubes, binary numbers, & capacitory. $850 to build full-sized one
-
Germany invaded Nortway & occupied Denmark, and the war began in earnest
-
Computer, controlled by pre-punched paper tape, could care out addtion, subbtraction, multiplication, and division. 5-ton device contained almost 760,000 separate pieces. Data was stored and counted mechanically using 3000 decimal storage wheels, 1400 rotary dial switches, and 500 miles of wire
-
Happened around 5:30 am, destroyed hundereds of homes, killed 151 people, series of twisters finally ended at 10 p.m. Coal-mining towns were also hit hard
-
Was used by the military for calculating artillery-firing tables. In April 1946, a $300,000 deposit was given to Eckert and Mauchly for the research into a new compute
-
not a computer but is an important event in Computer History
-
used a stored program, first executed on June 21, 1948.
-
first commercial computer & able to pick presidential winner
-
had electrostatic storage tube memory, used magnetic tape to store information, and had binary, fixed-point, single address hardware.
-
The first successful high level programming language
-
computerized the banking indrustry, MICR allowed computers to read special numbers provided a vision of what business could expect from the application of data-processing machines, and illustrates how and why some of the key capabilities were invented
-
global death was estimated to be aroung 2 million, called H2N2 was on the whole a much milder illness than that of 1918 By December 1957, the worst seemed to be over
-
designing a complex electronic machine like a computer it was always necessary to increase the number of components involved in order to make technical advancesboth electrical, both engineers were working on an answer to the same dilemma: how to make more of less.
-
First computer game invented, about 200 man-hours to write the first version of Spacewar, two-player game involving warring spaceships firing photon torpedoe. each player could maneuver a spaceship and score by firing missiles at his opponent while avoiding the gravitational pull of the sun
-
nicknamed the mouse cuz tail came out of the end, user-friendly tool that almost anyone can use first prototype computer mouse was made to use with a graphical user interface windows
-
Original Internet, protected the flow of information between military installations by creating a network of geographically separated computers that could exchange information via a newly developed protocol
