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Abacus
instrument used to perform arithmetic calculation, and its still used today in China, Japan and Russia -
the analytical machine:
It was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage in 1827 -
ENIAC:
,Stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer -
von Neumann architecture
But first published in a newspaper by the 1930’s, a computer architecture, one of the first designs of what the computer would look like. It was designed by mathematician and physicist John von Neumann and others. -
UNIVA
This stands for a Universal Automatic Computer. It was the first commercial computer made in the United States. -
high-level programming language
A programming language such as C, FORTRAN, or Pascal that enables a programmer to write programs that are more or less independent of a particular type of computer. -
First Electronic Spread
LANPAR was the first electronic spreadsheet on mainframe and time sharing computers. -
UNIX operating system
a family of multitasking, multiuser computer of operating systems that derive from AT&T Unix developed at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and others. -
Altair:
World's first personal computer (PC) -
Windows:
Windows was in the making started as Microsoft. -
Apple
Founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wazniak, and Ronald Wayne. -
CRAY-1
The first supercomputer manufactured and marketed by Cray Research. -
holes in card:
A punched card is a flexible write-once medium that encodes data, most commonly 80 characters -
PC:
Microcomputer used for one person use at a time stands for Personal Computer. -
Macintosh:
-This was the first mass-market personal computer featuring an integral graphical user interface and mouse.
