History of computers

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    History of computers

    History of compuers
  • Difference engine

    The first mechanical machine
  • Analytical engine

  • The turing engine

    Used to break the german attack codes
  • collosus

    Mechaninical calculator
  • Stored Program Computers

  • The plankalkul

    FIrst computer coding program
  • The ENIAC

    It could do 5,000 operations per second, 1000 times the speed of other computers back then
  • Mini Computers

    computer that needed no air conditioning and required only one operator
  • The CDC 6600

  • IBM 1301 Disk Drive

    IBM's !301 Disk Drive was announced. The disk drive used a disk rotating at 1,800 RPM and could contain a maximum of 28 million characters
  • The CDC 7600

    a supercomputer
  • Floppy Disks

    Sometime in 1976, 5 1/4 inch flexible disk drives were developed in order to fit into smaller desktop computers.