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originally from Asia. It worked on a place-value notion meaning that the place of a bead or rock on the apparatus determined how much it was worth.
1600s: John Napier discovers logarithms. Robert
philosopher, invents the first mechanical digital calculator using gears, called the Pascaline. Although this machine could perform addition and subtraction on whole numbers, it was too expensive and only Pascal himself could repair it.
1804: Joseph Marie Jacquard used punch cards to
computer", discovered that many long calculations involved many similar, repeated operations. Therefore, he designed a machine, the difference engine which would be steam-powered, fully automatic and commanded by a fixed instruction program. In 1833, Babbage quit working on this machine to concentrate on the analytical engine.
suggested that a binary system should be used for storage rather than a decimal system.
1850s: George Boole developed Boolean logic
electromechanical, punched-card data-processing machine which was used to compile information for the 1890 U.S. census. Hollerith's tabulator became so successful that he started his own business to market it. His company would eventually become International Business Machines (IBM).
Clifford Berry build the first electronic digital computer. Their machine, the Atanasoff-BerryComputer (ABC) provided the foundation for the advances in electronic digital computers.
of 1996), from Germany, introduced the first programmable computer designed to solve complex engineering equations. This machine, called the Z3, was also the first to work on the binary system instead of the decimal system.
developed a hypothetical device, the Turing machine which would be designed to perform logical operation and could read and write. It would presage programmable computers. He also used vacuum technology to build British Colossus, a machine used to counteract the German code scrambling device, Enigma.
engineers from IBM, constructed a large automatic digital sequence-controlled computer called the Harvard Mark I. This computer could handle all four arithmetic operations, and had special built-in programs for logarithms and trigonometric functions.
1945: Dr. John von Neumann presented a paper
Integrator and Calculator) machine was developed by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr. at the University of Pennsylvania. It used 18, 000 vacuums, punch-card input, weighed thirty tons and occupied a thirty-by-fifty-foot space. It wasn't programmable but was productive from 1946 to 1955 and was used to compute artillery firing tables. That same year, the transistor was invented by William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain of Bell Labs. It would rid computers of vacuum tubes and radios.
(Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer), the first stored-program computer. EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer), the second stored-program computer was built by Mauchly, Eckert, and von Neumann. An Wang developed magnetic-core memory which Jay Forrester would reorganize to be more efficient.
the first computer designed and sold commercially, specifically for business dataprocessing applications.
1950s: Dr. Grace Murray Hopper developed the
UNIVAC I compiler.
Texas Instruments manufactured the first integrated circuit, or chip, which is a collection of tiny little transistors.
System/360 series of mainframe computers, the first general-purpose digital computers to use integrated circuits.
1961: Dr. Hopper was instrumental in developing
Instruction Code) programming language developed by Dr. Thomas Kurtz and Dr. John Kemeny.
specialized integrated circuit which was ale to process four bits of data at a time. It also included its own arithmetic logic unit. PASCAL, a structured programming language, was developed by Niklaus Wirth.
microcomputer" designed the first microcomputer, the Altair 8800, which was produced by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS). The same year, two young hackers, William Gates and Paul Allen approached MITS and promised to deliver a BASIC compiler. So they did and from the sale, Microsoft was born.
Apple Computer, Inc was founded by Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak.
develop the operating system for its new IBM personal computer. Microsoft has achieved tremendous growth and success today due to the development of MS-DOS. Apple III was also released.
1981: The IBM PC was introduced with a 16-bit
microprocessor.
which incorporated a unique graphical interface, making it easy to use. The same year, IBM released the 286-AT.
technology.
1988: A nondestructive worm was introduced into
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), encouraged manufacturers to build computer equipment that met power consumption guidelines. When guidelines are met, equipment displays the Energy Star logo. The same year, Several companies introduced computer systems using the Pentium microprocessor from Intel that contains 3.1 million transistors and is able to perform 112 million instructions per second (MIPS).
2000 Y 2K Bug programming errors discovered A young Filipino student releases the I Love You
e-mail virus that begins infecting computers and spreading over the Internet.
Microsoft Windows 2000 was released February
17, 2000.
Microsoft releases Windows ME June 19, 2000. January 1, 2001 - Microsoft announces Windows
95 is now a legacy item and will no longer be sold or shipped to any more customers.
Bill Gates unveils the Xbox on January 7th 2001.
computers in July 2001 with the intention of performing a DDoS attack on the White House government web page. The worm is estimated in causing $2 billion in damages and never succeeded in it's attack.
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 6.0 in August
27, 2001.
2003 and becomes the fastest spreading worm in history after infecting hundreds of thousands of computers in less than three hours.
Intel Pentium M is introduced in March.
2003.
DVD calls it quit, making Blu-ray the victor on February 19, 2008.
Apple introduces its latest line of Apple iMac