History of technology

By josh topel

  • The analytical machine

    (1837) a proposed mechanical computer that was very general. It had arithmetic logic, control flow, conditional branching and loops.

  • Holes in cards

    (1896) Edge-notched cards, or McBee cards, were a manual data storage and manipulation technology. It was used for specialized data storage and cataloging applications through much of the 20th century.

  • UNIVAC

    ,(1943 and 1946), UNIVAC is the name of a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation.

  • Von Neumann architecture

    (1945), A computer architecture conceived by mathematician, John Von Neumann which forms the core of nearly every computer system in use today.

  • ENIAC

    Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. It was the first electronic general purpose computer.

  • high-level programming language

    (1950) A high-level programming language is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer.

  • first electronic spreadsheet

    (1961) this is an interactive organization program that analyzes in a tabular form.

  • UNIX operating system

    (1969) Unix was developed by a group of employees at AT&T. It was first developed as an assembly language but then recoded in C. this is a multitasking and multiuser computer.

  • Altair

    (1975) 8800 was a microcomputer design from 1975 based on the Intel 8080 CPU. It became popular and was presented in news papers.

  • Apple

    , (1977) apple was founded in Cupertino California. At that time it was predominantly a personal computer.

  • PC

    ,(1977) a PC is translated to a personal computer. This device applied a single user it was intended for interactive individual use.

  • CRAY-1

    (1976) this was a supercomputer designed, manufactured and marketed by Cray Research. It became the best known and best successful computer for its time.

  • Windows

    ,(1981) the software that manages the computer hardware and also serves to bridge the gap between the computer hardware and programs. A word processor would be an example.

  • Macintosh

    (1984), This device became the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface. Apple facilitates all aspects of its hardware and creates its own operating system.