-The trade of goods -The expansion of commerce -Evolution of tools for calculations A sumerian clay tablet
- 1640s Blaise Pascal: adding machine s Charles Babbage: problem solving tools The Pascaline (adding machine) Babbage and John Herschel - difference engine - analytical engine - Ada Augusta Countess of Lovelace
Joseph Marie Jaquard’s loom Joseph Marie Jaquard’s loom - punched cards - patterns
- USA: 1880 1890 population: 50 millions 63 millions - using employees - more than 10 years - Dr. Herman Hollerith’s machines - six weeks - punched cards Dr. Herman Hollerith’s machines
First generationSecond generationThird generation Fourth generation 1959 Jack Kilby Texas Instruments 1956 William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain
The first IBM logo - Census success Hoolerit founded Tabulating Machine Company the TMC merged into IBM
- Invented in 1944 by Howard G. Aiken miles of wire - 51 feet long - general purpose The Mark I
The Colossus - Built in Used to break military codes
The ENIAC - Built in Designed by J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchley - 19,000 vacuum tubes - 70,000 resistors - 5 million soldered joints. - 5,000 additions, 357 multiplications, 38 divisions in a whole second - general purpose
- Grace Hopper (U.S. Navy) MARK I - Adele Goldstein ENIAC - John V. Atanasoff (Iowa University) all-electronic computer - meet Clifford Berry - ~ 1945 John Von Neumann John Von Neumann
A part of the EDVAC - EDVAC stands for “Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer” - commercial purpose
A UNIVAC terminal - UNIVAC stands for “UNIVersal Automatic Computer” - commercial purpose s: first generation computers - Used in the 1950’s census : Used by the General Electric Company - The first softwares