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Details Title: Intro To Media Arts Description: Chapter 1 Computer History And Basics Total Flash Cards: 22 Created: 10/25/2006 18:45:21	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Joseph Marie-Jacquard Definition First Used Punched Cards To Program Weaving Looms. (US Census of 1890 took only 6 weeks) Term Charles Babbage Definition In The 1820's Started Work on "Difference Engine," Performed Various Mathematical Calculations. Term Herman Hollerith Definition Developed Punch Card Reading machine. Term Vacuum Tubes Definition Radio Waves Converted into electricity. Term Analog Computers Definition Used Physically Moving Parts To Perform Computations. Term Differential Analyzer Definition Built Using Rods, Gears, Electric Motors, And Pulleys. Millitary use for long range weaponry. Considered One of the first "digital computers. Term Harvard Mark 1 Definition Completed in 1944 at Harvard. Financed by the military. Used for calculating the equations and formulas of the atomic bomb. Term Harvard Mark II Definition Claimed fame for being the first computer to have a "bug," literally a moth had gotten stuck within the computer. Term Colussus Definition Computer designed to crack Hitlers code "Ultra, or Fish" Term ENIAC Definition Electronic numeric integrator and computer. better and faster way of doing calculations Term EDVAC Definition Error Free Runtime of 8 hours. (electronic discrete variable automatic calculator) Term EDSAC Definition electronic delay storage automatic calculator. historys first certified stored-program computer. Term UNIVAC Definition universal automatic computer. size of small garage. 46 were constructed each with the going rate of $1,000,000 used by several different millitary brances. Term Transistors Definition gives off less heat, uses slightly less power and MUCh smaller than vacuum tubes. contributions for the transistor were largely impart due to the space race. Term Microprocessors Definition Computer companys realized the need for smaller and personal desktops. Term Code Definition Computer code instructs the computer how to carry out specified processing tasks. Term Bjarne Stroutstrup Definition Created the C++ computer language. Term Altair 8800 Definition First consumer priced pc Term Apple I Definition circuit board with built-in connections for a video monitor, tape drive, and keyboard. Did not include case, purchasers needed too build their own. Term Apple II Definition First personal computer that supported a color display. $1300 Term VisiCalc Definition First spreadsheet program-forerunner to excel Term Commodore Definition First pc maufacturer to gross 1 billion dollars in computer sales.