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Holes in cards
Joseph Marie Jacquard invented the Jacquard Loom that weaved complex designs. Jacquard invented a way of automatically controlling the warp and weft threads on a silk loom by recording patterns of holes in a string of cards. -
The analytical machine
A mechanical digital computer which, viewed with the benefit of a century and a half’s hindsight, Mathematics at Cambridge in 1828. -
Von Neumann architecture
A computer architecture by john von Neumann. Formed the core of nearly every computer. -
ENIAC
John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert developed the ENIAC. ENIC means electrical numerical integrator and calculator. -
UNIVAC
The first commercially successful computer, introduced in 1951 by Remington Rand. Over 40 systems were sold. -
High-level programming language,
FORTRAN or formula translation was the first high level programming language invented by john Backus. It was released in 1957 commercially. -
UNIX operating system
Kenneth Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created the system. -
CRAY-1.
In 1972, he founded Cray research and his first computer. -
Altair
The Altair is considered by many to be the first personal computer. A personal computer is a computer that is easily sold in magazines and other sources. -
apple
A personal computer company founded in 1976 by Steven Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Throughout the history of computing Apple has been one of the most innovative influences. -
First electronic spreadsheet
VisiCalc was the first computer spreadsheet program. It was released to the public in 1979, running on an Apple computer. -
PC
The personal computer didn’t begin with IBM or Microsoft was an early participant in the fledgling PC industry. -
Macintosh
On January 24, 1984, Apple announced it to the board of directors and to the world. The world of computers has never been the same -
Windows
Microsoft began small but had eventually got everyone buying computers. During the years, Microsoft began to change the way we work.
