Scavenger Hunt Timeline

  • abacus

    abacus
    This was the first mass-market personal computer featuring an integral graphical user interface and mouse.
  • The analytical machine

    The analytical machine
    It was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage in 1827
  • ENIAC

    ENIAC
    Stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
  • von Neumann architecture

    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

    UNIVA
    This stands for a Universal Automatic Computer. It was the first commercial computer made in the United States.
  • high-level programming language

    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 SPREADSHEET

    FIRST ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET
    LANPAR was the first electronic spreadsheet on mainframe and time sharing computers.
  • UNIX operating system

    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.
  • Windows

    Windows
    Windows was in the making started as Microsoft.
  • Altair

    Altair
    World's first personal computer (PC)
  • CRAY-1

     CRAY-1
    The first supercomputer manufactured and marketed by Cray Research.
  • Apple

    Apple
    Founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wazniak, and Ronald Wayne.
  • Holes in card

    Holes in card
    A punched card is a flexible write-once medium that encodes data, most commonly 80 characters
  • Personal Computer

    Personal Computer
    Microcomputer used for one person use at a time stands for Personal Computer.
  • Macintosh

    Macintosh