HISTORICAL FACTS OF COMPUTERS

BYCETAN BARR

COMPUTERS….

• Have you ever thought how computers were first made or who made them and how? Well ,I have and we have all learned about it in computers 1 and 2 and it was quite cool. Do you know how your computer is made? Do you know who made it?

FACTS

• Early computational devices

• Early computers• Generations and m

ain components• Inventors/develope

rs• Internet• Wrap Up!• Citations

EARLY COMPUTATIONAL DEVICES

• First calculating tool was the abacus.

• Herman Hollerith developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards.

EARLY COMPUTERS

• Eckert and Mauchly both developed the first general purpose computer ENIAC and first commercial computer UNIVAC.

• Charles Babbage made the first computer.• Mark 1 was the first electronic computer made.

EARLY COMPUTERS CONT.

• Altair 8800 was the first microcomputer made in 1975.

• EDSAC and EDVAC are a couple of the earliest computers developed.

GENERATIONS AND MAIN COMPONENTS

• First generation was made up of vacuum tubes in 1946-1958. UNIVAC and ENIAC.

• Second generation computers were made up of transistors in 1956-1963.

• Third generation computers were made up of integrated circuits in 1965-1970. Can carry out instructions in billionths of a second.

GENERATIONS AND MAIN COMPONENTS CONT.

• Fourth generation computers were microprocessors made in 1971-today. Altair 8800 was the first microprocessor kit bought.

• Fifth generation computers are artificial intelligence. Made today-future. Quantum and Molecular will change in computers in years.

• Generations of Computers flyer.

INVENTORS/DEVELOPERS

• Steven Jobs and Steven Wozniak both helped create Apple.

• Bill Gates and Paul Allen helped design Microsoft.• In 1991, Tim Berners-Lee developed the World

Wide Web.

INVENTORS/DEVELOPERS CONT.

• Blaise Pascal made the first digital calculator.

• MANIAC was later developed by John Von Neumann.

INTERNET

• Birth of the net took place in 1969.

• ARPANET was the first Internet up and running and developed by Department of Defense.

• The first web browser made was Mosaic which was developed by Marc Andreesen.

WRAP UP!

• Well have you learned anything new about your computer? I have. Pretty fascinating how quickly our society has become more technological. Newer world means newer discoveries I guess. Can’t wait to see what our world will come up with next.

CITATIONS

• “The Five Generations of Computers.” Webopedia. IT Business Edge. 9 August 2011. 30 March 2012. http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/hardware_software/2002/fivegenerations.asp

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