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The document outlines the history of computing from ancient times to the modern era, highlighting key inventions and inventors such as the abacus, mechanical calculators, and the development of digital computers. It discusses significant milestones including the invention of the vacuum tube, transistors, and the emergence of the Internet and World Wide Web. Additionally, it touches on concepts like computer viruses and ethics in technology.

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The document outlines the history of computing from ancient times to the modern era, highlighting key inventions and inventors such as the abacus, mechanical calculators, and the development of digital computers. It discusses significant milestones including the invention of the vacuum tube, transistors, and the emergence of the Internet and World Wide Web. Additionally, it touches on concepts like computer viruses and ethics in technology.

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Before AD 1900

-20 000 to 30 000 BC

The first prime number was listed in animal bones or rock

-1800 BC

The first prime value number system listed

-Abacus

the mother of digital computer, that was create between 1000 BC to 500 AD

-Zero and Negative

Used in 300 BC to 500 AD

-Leonardo da Vinci

The person who create the first Mechanical Calculator in 1500. And create the slide rules 1621.

-Wilhelm Schickard

The person who create another mechanical calculator after da Vinci in 1625.

-Blaise Pascal

The person who created the arithmethic machine in 1640 (15 years after Schickard)

-Joseph Marie Jacquard

The person invented the Punched Card in 1800. He is a French Silk waiver.

-Charles Babbage
The person invented the Analytical Engine in 1830

-George and Edward Schutz

Invented the difference engine in 1830

-George Boole

The person invented the Boolean Algebra

-Charles Wheatstone

The person invented the first Paper Tape in 1857

-William Stanley Jevons

The person invented the Logic Machine in 1869

-Sholes

The person invented the first keyboard in 1874

-Allan Marquand

The person invented the rectangular logic diagrams 1881

-Charles Pierce

The person who linked Boolean Algebra to circuits based on switches in 1886

-John Venn

The person created the Venn Diagram in 1890


-Herman Hollerith

The person invented tabulating machine in 1890

After AD 1900

-John Ambrose Fleming

The person invented the vacuum tube.

-Lee de Forest

The person invented the Troide in 1906

-1926

the invention of the semiconductor transistor happen

-George Robert Stibitz

The person invented the complex number calculator in 1937

-Alan Turing

Th person invented the Turing Machine in 1937

-COLOSSUS

one of the first working programmable digital computer. And was design to break the GERMAN code.

-John Vincent Atanasoff

A lecturer at Iowa State University who invented the first digital computer that was called. Atanasoff's
Computer, which was the first special-purpose electronic digital computer.
-Clifford Berry

Atanasoff assistance in invention.

-Howard Aiken

the person developed the first large-scale Automatic Digital Computer, which is known as Harvard Mark
I/IBM/Automatic Sequencer Calculator (ASC).

-Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC)

was the world's first general-purpose electronic computer created by John William Mauchly and J.
Presper Eckert. 10ft high, 30t weight, 1000 ft occupied, 70 000 resistors, 10 000 capacitors, 6,000
swithes and 18, 000 vacuum tubes

-Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC)

The first truly general-purpose digital computer. This machine was invented from 1944 to 1952 and
finish in 1956. It has 4,000 vacuum tubes and 10,000 crystal diades.

- Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator(EDSAC)

invented by Cambridge University 1948-1949 became the first commercially available computer.

Names of Company that Manufacture the Machine:

-International Business Machine (IBM)

-Honeywell

-Control Data Corporation (CDC)

-International Computer Limited(ICL)

-mainframe

a huge computer
-minicomputer

medium range computer

-Microprocessor

Is an integrated circuit with transistor on a single board. Was found by Ted Hoff.

-4004 Microprocessor

The first type of microprocessor, which indicate that the device has 4 bit data path. It has a four chip
system, and it use 2,300 transistor to execute 60,000 operation per second.

-8008 Microprocessor

An 8-bit microprocessor based on the 4004. It uses 3,300 transistors and was the first microprocessor to
use a compiler. It was developed in 1972.

-Apple I and Apple II

The first microcomputers in 1976.

-1981, IBM joined the PC wars

The Three Players of the PC industry

-IBM

-Gary Kildall

the developer of CP/M, the PC operating system many believe to be the first PC operating system.

-Bill Gates

the developer of the disk operating system (DOS).

-Internet

a global network of computers, owes its development to the invention of four technologies: telegraph,
telephone, radio, and computers. And was developed by J.C.R. Licklider.

-Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)


-World Wide Web

begin in concepts contained in Tim Berners-Lee’s 1989 proposal to physicists calling for comments.

Three new technologies were incorporate due to the research:

-HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

based on hypertext concepts, to be used to write Web documents

-HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

a protocol to be used to transmit Web pages between hosts

-Web browser

client software program to receive and interpret data and display results.

Marc Andreessen and his team,

while working for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), developed another
graphic user interface browser: They named Mosaic. The graphic user interface (GUI) popularized the
user and fueled the growth of the World Wide Web to bring it to the point where it is today.

-Virus

is a Latin word which means poison.

-Computer Virus

defined as a self-propagating computer program designed to alter or destroy a computer system


resource.

-Computer Ethics

Is the analysis of the nature and social impact of computer technology and the corresponding
formulation and justification of policies for the ethical use of such technology

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