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a piece of stiff paper that contains digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions.
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It was a general purpose computer idea thought of by a mathematician by the name of Charles Babbage.
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von Neumann architecture describes the design architecture for a computer with subdivisions.
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The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), was the first general-purpose electronic computer ever to be used.
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an electrical computer containing thousands of vacuum tubes that utilizes punch cards and switches for inputting data and punch cards for outputting and storing data.
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enables a programmer to write programs that are more or less independent of a particular type of computer.
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UNIX is a widely used multi user operating system. It was created in AT&T’s Bell Laboratories in the early 1970’s.