Tech Trough Time

  • The Analytical Machine

    Generally the first computer
  • PC

    1940 and 1945- A small, relatively inexpensive computer designed for an individual user
  • Von Neumann Architecture

    which forms the core of nearly every computer system in use today
  • ENIAC

    The world's first electronic digital computer was developed by Army Ordnance to compute World War II ballistic firing tables
  • UNIVAC

    first commercially available computer
  • High-level Programming Language

    and released commercially in 1957- to understand any HLL, a compiler translates the high level language into either assembly language or machine code
  • UNIX operating system

    is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system
  • Holes In Cards

    piece of stiff paper that contains digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes
  • Altair

    microcomputer design from 1975 based on the Intel 8080 CPU and sold by mail order through advertisements
  • CRAY-1

    supercomputer designed, manufactured, and marketed by Cray Research
  • Apple

    prominent hardware and software company best known for its series of personal computers
  • First Electronic Spreadsheet

    VisiCalc was the first computer spreadsheet program
  • Macintosh

    Macintosh
    is a series of personal computers (PCs) designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc
  • Windows

    Windows
    is a personal computer operating system from Microsoft that, together with some commonly used business application