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The History Of Computer Technology Timeline

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  • Mechanical Devices- The Pascaline

    Mechanical Devices- The Pascaline
    Inventor: Blaise Pacsal
    Invention: The Pascaline
    Date: ? ? 1642
    Reason For Invention:to help with the labor of arithmetical labor with his father working as a supervisor of taxes at Rouen

  • Mechanical Devices- The Stepped Reckoner

    Mechanical Devices- The Stepped Reckoner
    Inventor: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
    Invention: The Steeped Reckoner
    Date: ? ? 1672
    Reason for invention:wanted to expand Pascal's invention so it can multiply and divide

  • Electro-Mehanical Devices- The Telegraph

    Electro-Mehanical Devices- The Telegraph
    inventor:Samuel Morse
    Invention: The Telegraph
    date: ? ? 1832
    Reason for invention:to redo the dashes and dots made for the morse code

  • Electro-Mechanical Devices- Telephone

    Electro-Mechanical Devices- Telephone
    inventor:Alexzander Graham Bell
    Invention: Telephone
    Date: March 10, 1876
    Reason for invention:people can talk direcrly from far distances

  • First Generation- The Manchester Mark 1

    First Generation- The Manchester Mark 1
    The Manchester Mark 1 was one of the earliest stored-program computers, developed at the Victoria University of Manchester from the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) or "Baby" (operational in June 1948). It was also called the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine, or MADM.Work began in August 1948, and the first version was operational by April 1949

  • First Generation Computers- Ferranti Mark 1

    First Generation Computers- Ferranti Mark 1
    The Ferranti Mark 1, also known as the Manchester Electronic Computer in its sales literature, and thus sometimes called the Manchester Ferranti, was the world's first commercially available general-purpose electronic computer. It was "the tidied up and commercialised version of the Manchester computer".

  • Second Generation- IBM 1401

    Second Generation- IBM 1401
    The IBM 1401 was a variable wordlength decimal computer that was announced by IBM on October 5, 1959. The first member of the highly successful IBM 1400 series, it was aimed at replacing electromechanical unit record equipment for processing data stored on punched cards. Over 10,000 units were produced and many were leased or resold in less developed countries after they were replaced with newer technology

  • Third Generation- Burroughs B5000

    Third Generation- Burroughs B5000
    In the 1970s, Burroughs Corporation was organized into three divisions with very different product line architectures for high-end, mid-range, and entry-level business computer systems. Each division's product line grew from a different concept for how to optimize a computer's instruction set for particular programming languages. The Burroughs Large Systems Group designed large mainframes using stack machine instruction sets with dense instruction syllables[NB 1] and 48-bit data words.

  • Fourth Generation- The MIR

    Fourth Generation- The MIR
    First Fourth Generation Computer. Developed by a group headed by Victor Glushkov. It was designed as a relatively small-scale computer for use in engineering and scientific applications and contained a hardware implementation of a high-level programming language.

  • Fourth Generation- PC's (Pesonal Computers)

    Fourth Generation- PC's (Pesonal Computers)
    In 1981, IBM introduced personal computers for home and office use. "The number of personal computers in use more than doubled from 2 million in 1981 to 5.5 million in 1982. Ten years later, 65 million PCs were being used." Computer size kept getting reduced during the years. It went down from Desktop to laptops to Palmtops. Machintosh introduecd Graphic User Interface in which the users didnt' have to type instructions but could use Mouse for the purpose.