Computer historyBy Breanne Larsen

What would you do without a computer

bull Some of the most popular uses for computers arendash Homework researchndash Video Gamingndash Online Bankingndash Social Networking

Evolution of Computers

bull The 5 main influences of computer evolution arendash Early Computational Devicesndash Early Computersndash Generationsndash InventorsDevelopersndash Internet

Computers today

Without all of these people and devices the

World Wide Web wouldnrsquot be what it is today

Just think what would you do without the use

of a computer

Early computational devices

bull ARPANET- 1st network composed the global internet

bull Abacus- 1st counting devicebull Mark1- IBM Automatic Sequence

Controlled Calculator electro-machanical computer

bull Punched Cards- Rapidly tabulated statistics from millions of pieces of data

Early Comouters

bull ENIAC- 1st general-purpose computerbull EDSAC- Electronic Delay Storage

Automatic Calculator 2nd practical stored-program electronic computer amp 1st to run a graphical computer

bull EDVAC- Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic computer early electronic computer stored program computer

bull UNIVAC- Universal Automatic Computer 1st commercial computer produced in the United States

Early computers cont

bull 1st Microcomputer- Computer with microprocessor as its central processing unit

bull Formation of Microsoft- Bill Gates amp Paul Allen developed BASIC language software

bull Formation of Apple Computer Inc- Started by Steve Jobs and Steven Wozniak

5 computer generations

bull 1st Generation- Vacuum Tubes (1940-1956)

bull 2nd Generation- Transistors (1956-1963)

bull 3rd Generation- Integrated Circuits (1964-1971)

bull 4th Generation- Microprocessors (1971-Present)

bull 5th Generation- Artificial Intelligence (Present-Beyond)

What would you do without a computer

bull Some of the most popular uses for computers arendash Homework researchndash Video Gamingndash Online Bankingndash Social Networking

Evolution of Computers

bull The 5 main influences of computer evolution arendash Early Computational Devicesndash Early Computersndash Generationsndash InventorsDevelopersndash Internet

Computers today

Without all of these people and devices the

World Wide Web wouldnrsquot be what it is today

Just think what would you do without the use

of a computer

Early computational devices

bull ARPANET- 1st network composed the global internet

bull Abacus- 1st counting devicebull Mark1- IBM Automatic Sequence

Controlled Calculator electro-machanical computer

bull Punched Cards- Rapidly tabulated statistics from millions of pieces of data

Early Comouters

bull ENIAC- 1st general-purpose computerbull EDSAC- Electronic Delay Storage

Automatic Calculator 2nd practical stored-program electronic computer amp 1st to run a graphical computer

bull EDVAC- Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic computer early electronic computer stored program computer

bull UNIVAC- Universal Automatic Computer 1st commercial computer produced in the United States

Early computers cont

bull 1st Microcomputer- Computer with microprocessor as its central processing unit

bull Formation of Microsoft- Bill Gates amp Paul Allen developed BASIC language software

bull Formation of Apple Computer Inc- Started by Steve Jobs and Steven Wozniak

5 computer generations

bull 1st Generation- Vacuum Tubes (1940-1956)

bull 2nd Generation- Transistors (1956-1963)

bull 3rd Generation- Integrated Circuits (1964-1971)

bull 4th Generation- Microprocessors (1971-Present)

bull 5th Generation- Artificial Intelligence (Present-Beyond)

Evolution of Computers

bull The 5 main influences of computer evolution arendash Early Computational Devicesndash Early Computersndash Generationsndash InventorsDevelopersndash Internet

Computers today

Without all of these people and devices the

World Wide Web wouldnrsquot be what it is today

Just think what would you do without the use

of a computer

Early computational devices

bull ARPANET- 1st network composed the global internet

bull Abacus- 1st counting devicebull Mark1- IBM Automatic Sequence

Controlled Calculator electro-machanical computer

bull Punched Cards- Rapidly tabulated statistics from millions of pieces of data

Early Comouters

bull ENIAC- 1st general-purpose computerbull EDSAC- Electronic Delay Storage

Automatic Calculator 2nd practical stored-program electronic computer amp 1st to run a graphical computer

bull EDVAC- Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic computer early electronic computer stored program computer

bull UNIVAC- Universal Automatic Computer 1st commercial computer produced in the United States

Early computers cont

bull 1st Microcomputer- Computer with microprocessor as its central processing unit

bull Formation of Microsoft- Bill Gates amp Paul Allen developed BASIC language software

bull Formation of Apple Computer Inc- Started by Steve Jobs and Steven Wozniak

5 computer generations

bull 1st Generation- Vacuum Tubes (1940-1956)

bull 2nd Generation- Transistors (1956-1963)

bull 3rd Generation- Integrated Circuits (1964-1971)

bull 4th Generation- Microprocessors (1971-Present)

bull 5th Generation- Artificial Intelligence (Present-Beyond)

Computers today

Without all of these people and devices the

World Wide Web wouldnrsquot be what it is today

Just think what would you do without the use

of a computer

Early computational devices

bull ARPANET- 1st network composed the global internet

bull Abacus- 1st counting devicebull Mark1- IBM Automatic Sequence

Controlled Calculator electro-machanical computer

bull Punched Cards- Rapidly tabulated statistics from millions of pieces of data

Early Comouters

bull ENIAC- 1st general-purpose computerbull EDSAC- Electronic Delay Storage

Automatic Calculator 2nd practical stored-program electronic computer amp 1st to run a graphical computer

bull EDVAC- Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic computer early electronic computer stored program computer

bull UNIVAC- Universal Automatic Computer 1st commercial computer produced in the United States

Early computers cont

bull 1st Microcomputer- Computer with microprocessor as its central processing unit

bull Formation of Microsoft- Bill Gates amp Paul Allen developed BASIC language software

bull Formation of Apple Computer Inc- Started by Steve Jobs and Steven Wozniak

5 computer generations

bull 1st Generation- Vacuum Tubes (1940-1956)

bull 2nd Generation- Transistors (1956-1963)

bull 3rd Generation- Integrated Circuits (1964-1971)

bull 4th Generation- Microprocessors (1971-Present)

bull 5th Generation- Artificial Intelligence (Present-Beyond)

Early computational devices

bull ARPANET- 1st network composed the global internet

bull Abacus- 1st counting devicebull Mark1- IBM Automatic Sequence

Controlled Calculator electro-machanical computer

bull Punched Cards- Rapidly tabulated statistics from millions of pieces of data

Early Comouters

bull ENIAC- 1st general-purpose computerbull EDSAC- Electronic Delay Storage

Automatic Calculator 2nd practical stored-program electronic computer amp 1st to run a graphical computer

bull EDVAC- Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic computer early electronic computer stored program computer

bull UNIVAC- Universal Automatic Computer 1st commercial computer produced in the United States

Early computers cont

bull 1st Microcomputer- Computer with microprocessor as its central processing unit

bull Formation of Microsoft- Bill Gates amp Paul Allen developed BASIC language software

bull Formation of Apple Computer Inc- Started by Steve Jobs and Steven Wozniak

5 computer generations

bull 1st Generation- Vacuum Tubes (1940-1956)

bull 2nd Generation- Transistors (1956-1963)

bull 3rd Generation- Integrated Circuits (1964-1971)

bull 4th Generation- Microprocessors (1971-Present)

bull 5th Generation- Artificial Intelligence (Present-Beyond)

Early Comouters

bull ENIAC- 1st general-purpose computerbull EDSAC- Electronic Delay Storage

Automatic Calculator 2nd practical stored-program electronic computer amp 1st to run a graphical computer

bull EDVAC- Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic computer early electronic computer stored program computer

bull UNIVAC- Universal Automatic Computer 1st commercial computer produced in the United States

Early computers cont

bull 1st Microcomputer- Computer with microprocessor as its central processing unit

bull Formation of Microsoft- Bill Gates amp Paul Allen developed BASIC language software

bull Formation of Apple Computer Inc- Started by Steve Jobs and Steven Wozniak

5 computer generations

bull 1st Generation- Vacuum Tubes (1940-1956)

bull 2nd Generation- Transistors (1956-1963)

bull 3rd Generation- Integrated Circuits (1964-1971)

bull 4th Generation- Microprocessors (1971-Present)

bull 5th Generation- Artificial Intelligence (Present-Beyond)

Early computers cont

bull 1st Microcomputer- Computer with microprocessor as its central processing unit

bull Formation of Microsoft- Bill Gates amp Paul Allen developed BASIC language software

bull Formation of Apple Computer Inc- Started by Steve Jobs and Steven Wozniak

5 computer generations

bull 1st Generation- Vacuum Tubes (1940-1956)

bull 2nd Generation- Transistors (1956-1963)

bull 3rd Generation- Integrated Circuits (1964-1971)

bull 4th Generation- Microprocessors (1971-Present)

bull 5th Generation- Artificial Intelligence (Present-Beyond)

5 computer generations

bull 1st Generation- Vacuum Tubes (1940-1956)

bull 2nd Generation- Transistors (1956-1963)

bull 3rd Generation- Integrated Circuits (1964-1971)

bull 4th Generation- Microprocessors (1971-Present)

bull 5th Generation- Artificial Intelligence (Present-Beyond)

InventorsDevelopers

bull Steve Jobs- Co-founder of Apple Incbull Steven Wazniak- Co-founder of Apple

Incbull Bill Gates- Founded microsoft amp is

now a chairmanbull Tim Berners-Lee- Inventor of the

World Wide Webbull Marc Andreesen- Co-author of Mosiacbull Department of Defense- Started

ARPANET

inventorsdevelopers cont

bull Charles Babbage- Father of Computing- Originated the concept of a programable computer

bull Herman Hollerith- Developed punched cards

bull Blaise Pascal- Invented mechanical computer

bull John von Newman- Helped design EDVAC

bull Eckart amp Mauchly- Designed EDVACbull Paul Allen- Founded Microsoft

INternet

bull Birth of the Net- The start of everything

bull 1st Browser- Popularized the Word Wide Web

bull ARPANET- 1st Network

• Computer history
• What would you do without a computer
• Evolution of Computers
• Computers today
• Early computational devices
• Early Comouters
• Early computers cont
• 5 computer generations
• InventorsDevelopers
• inventorsdevelopers cont
• INternet

inventorsdevelopers cont

bull Charles Babbage- Father of Computing- Originated the concept of a programable computer

bull Herman Hollerith- Developed punched cards

bull Blaise Pascal- Invented mechanical computer

bull John von Newman- Helped design EDVAC

bull Eckart amp Mauchly- Designed EDVACbull Paul Allen- Founded Microsoft

INternet

bull Birth of the Net- The start of everything

bull 1st Browser- Popularized the Word Wide Web

bull ARPANET- 1st Network

• Computer history
• What would you do without a computer
• Evolution of Computers
• Computers today
• Early computational devices
• Early Comouters
• Early computers cont
• 5 computer generations
• InventorsDevelopers
• inventorsdevelopers cont
• INternet

INternet

bull Birth of the Net- The start of everything

bull 1st Browser- Popularized the Word Wide Web

bull ARPANET- 1st Network

• Computer history
• What would you do without a computer
• Evolution of Computers
• Computers today
• Early computational devices
• Early Comouters
• Early computers cont
• 5 computer generations
• InventorsDevelopers
• inventorsdevelopers cont
• INternet