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The History and Development of Computers Chapter 2

The History and Basic Operations of Computers The History...Benjamin Franklin Collected electrical charge--1752 Discovered that lightning is electrical charge Conducted many experiments

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Page 1: The History and Basic Operations of Computers The History...Benjamin Franklin Collected electrical charge--1752 Discovered that lightning is electrical charge Conducted many experiments

The History and Development of

Computers

Chapter 2

Page 2: The History and Basic Operations of Computers The History...Benjamin Franklin Collected electrical charge--1752 Discovered that lightning is electrical charge Conducted many experiments

Ancient Computing Devices

Fingers

Abacus-5000 years ago

Stones – “cal”

Tally bones

Sticks

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John Napier

1617—Scotland

Napier’s Bones

Square sticks with numbers written on

Placed in frame

Read across to get answer

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Blaise Pascal France

1623-1662

1642-Numerical Wheel Calculator (Pascaline)

Could only add

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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

Germany

1646-1716

Leibniz wheel-1673

Could add and multiply

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Benjamin Franklin

Collected electrical charge--1752

Discovered that lightning is electrical charge

Conducted many experiments with electricity

Invented lightning rod

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Joseph-Marie Jacquard France 1752-1834 Loom – improved

method for weaving cloth-1804

Ancestor of the punched card

First computer program

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Charles Babbage

England

1792-1871

Difference Engine-1821

4 processes – input, processing, storage, output

Later developed the Analytical Engine

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The Difference Engine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0anIyVGeWOI

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Herman Hollerith

United States census –1880

7-8 years to complete Tabulating Machine-

1884 Used punched cards Finished in about 10

weeks Founded International

Business Machine Company (IBM)

1860-1929

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Automatic Card Reader

Page 14: The History and Basic Operations of Computers The History...Benjamin Franklin Collected electrical charge--1752 Discovered that lightning is electrical charge Conducted many experiments

Early Punched Cards

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First Generation Electronic Computers – 1941-1956

Mechanical parts or vacuum tubes

Magnetic drum storage

Instructions specific for each task

Machine language

Performed basic arithmetic operations

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Konrad Zuse

Germany

Built the Z1 in 1936

Operating speed of 1 Hz (today’s computers are billions of times faster

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Zuse’s Early Computers

The Z1 -1936

Punched Tape

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The Enigma

Germany-WWII

Code translation

Could code, decode, and create new codes thousands of times faster than a human

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb44bGY2KdU&feature=related

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Mark I

Howard Aiken –Harvard University –1943

Electromechanical relay switches

Very noisy

Used by the Navy for defense

Page 21: The History and Basic Operations of Computers The History...Benjamin Franklin Collected electrical charge--1752 Discovered that lightning is electrical charge Conducted many experiments

Vacuum Tubes

Advantages Quieter

Faster

Disadvantages Hot

Burn out

Page 22: The History and Basic Operations of Computers The History...Benjamin Franklin Collected electrical charge--1752 Discovered that lightning is electrical charge Conducted many experiments

Eniac Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania

1943

Vacuum tubes

Fixed programming

Used until 1955

More arithmetic than entire human race up to that time

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The Cold War

Russia and United States

Possibility of nuclear war

Led to space race

Satellite must have computer

Problems

Vacuum tubes

Weight and size

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Second Generation Computers1956-1963

Transistors

Smaller size

Assembly language - easier programming

Stored programs

COBOL, FORTRAN

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1954 - Transistor

Walter Brattain and John Bardeen

Used silicone

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IBM Computers

Mainframe computers

Stored data using punched cards

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Punched cards

Machine to produce cards

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Third Generation Computers1964-1971

Integrated circuit

Silicon chip

Even smaller size

Operating system -could run many different programs at once

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1987 - First Excel spreadsheet

1987 – Microsoft Works

1988 - First CD-ROM

1988 - Hewlett Packard inkjet printer

1988-First Internet worm (virus)

1990 - Windows 3.0

1991 - QuickTime software - digital video

1991 - Sound Blaster sound card

1991 - Pixar - Disney computer animation

1992 - Apple PowerBook laptop computer

1993 - CD recordable drive

1993-Jurassic Park

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1999 (1 year old)

1999-Office 2000

Blackberry

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2001 (3 years old)

Wikipedia

Ipod

Xbox

Wireless technology

e-Books

Windows XP

Satellite radio

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2002 (4 years old)

eBay

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2004 (First grade)

MySpace

Gmail

World of Warcraft

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2005 (Second grade)

Google Maps

YouTube

Windows Vista

Xbox 360

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2006 (Third grade)

Blu-ray

Twitter

Skype

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2007 (Fourth grade)

iPhone

Windows 2007

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2008 (Fifth grade)

iMac

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2009 (Sixth grade)

Bing

Nook

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2010 (Seventh grade)

iPad

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2011 (Eighth grade)

3D TV and movies