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Holes In Cards
holes in cards, In 1725: They were used in store information and organize factories. They transferred numbers to the computer and soon turned into push buttons -
the analytical machine
It was first described in 1831 by Charles Babbage. This machine was said to be something great for the 19th century. The funds weren’t able to be obtained so the plan fell through and others came out with mechanical computers. -
ENIAC
In 1946 ENIAC was invented as the first all-purpose computer. It was designed during WWII and became very popular. -
von Neumann architecture
The architecture started in 1948. The Von Newman came from the name John von Newmann the writer. The computer created held a 96 word memory and to people back then, it was phenomenal -
UNIVAC
UNIVAC was built in 1948 and was used for government business. The main thing it was used for is census work and economic surveys. It became popular in 1951 because of how helpful it was for the government -
high-level programming language
High Level Programming was invented in 1954 but wasn’t commercially introduced until 1957. The first successful High Level Programming was called Fortran or Speedcoding. It is a series of codes for the computer to understand and read. -
PC
PC was released in 1965. It was the commercial “desktop Computer”. By 2001, 125 million computers were shipped, which is compared to the 48 thousand by 1977 -
UNIX operating system
In the early 1970s the UNIX operating system escaped from AT&T. These systems lead to many different versions. Computer aided design, manufacturing control systems, laboratory simulations, even the Internet itself, all began life with and because of UNIX systems. -
CRAY-1
The first one was installed in 1971 for 8.8 million dollars. It boosted the world-record speed of 160 million floating point per second. It was an 8 gigabyte memory. -
Altair
In 1975 Altair was designed off of Intel and many people became interested in it because it was something new. High demand for this made Altair very popula -
Apple
The company was founded in April of 1976 and is one of the most popular companies. It is known for its ipod, mac computers, ipads, and many more. Apple has 394 retail stores in fourteen countries now. -
The First Electronic spreadsheet
The first Electronic spreadsheet was VisiCalc. It was released to the public in 1979 running on an Apple II computer. VisiCalc saved people a lot of time and helped businesses and companies prosper -
Windows
In 1983, windows was announced but took a while to develop. In 1985, Windows 1.0 was developed and became very popular. It was so popular because everything was as simple as moving a mouse and clicking -
Macintosh
January of 1984 the Macintosh was released through Apple. It came out with 128k RAM and was later proven to be insufficient. Because this turned out to be unsuccessful, Apple had to quickly come out with another computer.
