History of the computer

  • Abacus 3000 BC
    Jan 1, 1500

    Abacus 3000 BC

    counting device used by the chinese and asia it was made of wood with little round balls that slide up and down that is used for counting.
  • Holes in Cards

    Holes in Cards

    a punch card contained digital information
  • The analytical machine

    The analytical machine

    Charles Babbage, invented the first automatic calculating machine. It was also used to calculate and print mathematical tables.
  • von neumann architecture

    von neumann architecture

    a design modal for stored-program digital computers.
  • ENIAC

    ENIAC

    the army need a computer and they used it to calculate artillery firing tables and target accuracy. It took 18 mounts and 500,000 dollars to build
  • high-leval programming language

    high-leval programming language

    strong abstraction from the details of the computer
  • UNIVAC

    UNIVAC

    it is an electrical computer that has lots of switches punch cards and switches usually took multiple people to work it.
  • PC

    PC

    the first one was a datapoint 2200 a personal computer it is a microcomputer designed for one persons use at a time.
  • UNIX operating system

    UNIX operating system

    owned by AT&T this is how the internet started.
  • altair

    altair

    a microcomputer design. Sold thousands in the first month. Lots of individuals and businesses wanted them.
  • apple

    apple

    it is a company that makes computers, iPods hardware and software for computers called apple they also made the Mac.
  • CRAY-1

    CRAY-1

    was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory it was capable of processing 20 – 60 million floating point operations per second.
  • First electronic spreadsheet

    First electronic spreadsheet

    VisiCalc was the first computer spreadsheet. It was considered the 4th generation software program.
  • macintosh

    macintosh

    a Macintosh also known as the Mac is a personal computer.
  • windows

    windows

    windows is a personal computer it is operating system from Microsoft it was introduced to home, business and pc users.