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3000 B.C.
Babylonia
First Calculator |
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1600s
Napiers Bones
precursor to slide rule |
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1642
pascaline-adding machine |
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1674
Stepped Reckoner
Could add, aubtract, multiply and divide |
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1803
Automated Looms
Punched cards to reproduce complex patterns
Primitive programming |
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1832
Difference Engine
Calcuator of polynomial functions |
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| Ada, Countess of Lovelace |
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1840
Writes programs for Babbage's analytical engine and becomes first programmer
Suggests a binary system |
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1850s
Basis for computer logic |
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1890
First Electro-mechanical punched-card data processing machine
Compiled data for census |
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| First Generation Computers |
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1939-56
Used vacuum tubes
Very Large |
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| Second Generation Computers |
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| Third Generation Computers |
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1964-71
Integrated Circuit |
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| Fourth Generation Computers |
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1951
Gen-1
Grace Murray Hopper
Predicts pres. election
Brings computers to attention of public |
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1957
Gen-2
John Backus
Is a programming language |
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1959
Gen-2
Grace Hopper
Programming Language |
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1964
Gen-2
John Kemeny/Thomas Kurtz
beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code |
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1970
Gen-3
Multitasking operating system |
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1971
Gen-4
Ted Hoff
First mass-produced microprocessor |
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1975
Gen-4
Father of the personal computer |
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1975
Gen-4
build a BASIC computer that will eventually become microsoft |
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1975
Gen-4
build a computer, eventually start apple |
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1980
Gen-4
operating system for a personal computer developed by bill gates |
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