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-The trade of goods -The expansion of commerce -Evolution of tools for calculations A sumerian clay tablet
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- 1640s Blaise Pascal: adding machine - 1800s Charles Babbage: problem solving tools The Pascaline (adding machine) - 1822 Babbage and John Herschel - difference engine - analytical engine - Ada Augusta Countess of Lovelace
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Joseph Marie Jaquard’s loom - 1801 Joseph Marie Jaquard’s loom - punched cards - patterns
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- 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
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First generationSecond generationThird generation Fourth generation 1959 Jack Kilby Texas Instruments 1956 William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain
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The first IBM logo - Census success Hoolerit founded Tabulating Machine Company - 1924 the TMC merged into IBM
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- Invented in 1944 by Howard G. Aiken - 500 miles of wire - 51 feet long - general purpose The Mark I
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The Colossus - Built in 1943 - Used to break military codes
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The ENIAC - Built in 1946 - 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
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- Grace Hopper (U.S. Navy) MARK I - Adele Goldstein ENIAC - John V. Atanasoff (Iowa University) - 1939 all-electronic computer - meet Clifford Berry - ~ 1945 John Von Neumann John Von Neumann
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A part of the EDVAC - EDVAC stands for “Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer” - commercial purpose
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A UNIVAC terminal - UNIVAC stands for “UNIVersal Automatic Computer” - commercial purpose - 1950s: first generation computers - Used in the 1950’s census - 1952: Used by the General Electric Company - The first softwares
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