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Abacus
A calculating tool that was in use centuries before the adoption of the written modern numeral system and is still widely used by merchants, traders and clerks in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere -
The analytical engine
The Analytical Engine was, or would have been, the world's first general-purpose computer. -
Holes In Cards
See loyalty punch card. (2) An early storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that held data as patterns of punched holes. Also called "punched" cards, each of the 80 or 96 columns held one character. -
ENIAC
Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer -
Von Neumann Architecture
A computer architecture based on that described in 1945 by the mathematician and physicist John von Neumann and others in the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC -
UNIVAC
The name of a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. -
High-Level Programming Language
Programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer. -
UNIX Operating System
A family of multitasking, multi user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, developed in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others. -
PC
A small, relatively inexpensive computer designed for an individual user. -
CRAY-1
Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed, manufactured and marketed -
Apple
The round fruit of a tree of the rose family, which typically has thin red or green skin and crisp flesh. Many varieties have been developed as dessert or cooking fruit or for making cider. -
VisiCalc
One of the most important programs ever created for microcomputers. -
Windows
A computer operating system with a graphical user interface. -
Macintosh
A series of PC designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. Steve Jobs Introduced the original Macintosh computer -
Altair
A first-magnitude star in the constellation Aquila.
