Wednesday, May 26, 2010
History of computers
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A. Gecha
The Differential Analyser was a mechanical analogue computer that can be setup in different configurations or "programmed" to suit different problems.
The Z1 computer was a mechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse. It was a binary mechanical calculator that can read instructions from punched tapes.
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer or ABC was the first electronic digital computing device that was designed only to solve linear equations.
Mark I was probably the last electro-mechanical computer that was built by IBM. The first mechanical analog computer "Computer Mark 1" by the Ford Instrument Company was used on aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers and destroyers during the WWII.
ENIAC or short for Electronic Numeric Integrated Automatic Computer is the first electronic computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a range of computing problems.
The "Baby" or the Manchester Small Scale Experimental Machine was the first store-program electronic digital computer.
BINAC or the Binary Automatic Computer, was the first commercial digital computer.
The UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial digital computer that was produced in the US.
The IBM 701 was a general purpose machine that was also known as the "Defense Calculator".
The Electronic Recording Method of Accounting (ERMA) was the first electronic accounting machine that can read MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition on the checks.
Spacewar computer game was the first ever computer game invented by Steve Russell & MIT.
Douglas Engelbart gave a demo about the first mouse (nicknamed because a tail came out the end) and the first windows.
ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was a project of the US Department of Defense. It is the first packet switching network that predates the Internet.
The newly formed company Intel released the 1103. It is the first DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) chip.
The Intel 4004 was the first complete CPU chip and the first commercially available microprocessor.
The Floppy Disk was a data storage medium developed by IBM. It was nicknamed "Floppy" because of it's flexibility.
Robert Metcalfe was a research staff for Xerox when he was asked to build a networking system now known as Ethernet.
Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 computers were marketed by 1972. By 1976, other computers like Apple I & II & TRS-80 & Commodore Pet computers were also marketed.
VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program for personal computers.
The IBM PC was the original version of the IBM PC hardware platform. This started the personal computer revolution.
MS-DOS was the main operating system for personal computers from 1980s up to mid-1990.
Apple's Lisa computer was the first personal computer with a Graphical User Interface (GUI).
Macintosh was the first commercially successful personal computer that has a mouse and GUI.
Microsoft's Windows was first introduced in 1985 to start a friendly competition with Apple.
Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau made the "hypertext" system which is the start of the Internet.
Microsoft released Windows 3.0
The World was the first dialup ISP in the US.
Linux was first introduced by Linus Torvald.
The Worlds Wide Web (WWW) was publicly launched in 1991
Netscape was founded by Marc Andreesen and James H. Clark in 1994. Red Hat Linux and Yahoo! were also founded on the same year.
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 1.0 in 1995 while Apple develops FireWire. Java was introduced in 1995 while USB standard was released on the same year.
In 1996, Google was first developed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Macromedia releases Macromedia Flash 1.0. Sony enters the PC market with the release of VAIO.
By 1997, On January 7th Microsoft releases the final version of Internet Explorer 3.0 for the Apple Macintosh. IEEE releases 802.11 (WiFi) standard. Digital Video Discs / Digital Versatile Discs (DVDs) go on sale. Kaspersky is founded.
In 1998, Microsoft Windows 98 is officially released on June 25, 1998. Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page September 7, 1998. Rockstar Games is founded. MySQL is introduced.
IBM introduces the first Microdrive in 1999, the world's physically smallest hard drive capable of storing 170MB.
By 2001, USB 2.0 is introduced. In 2003, MySpace is founded. Firefox 1.0 is first introduced on November 9, 2004. The blu-ray is first announced and introduced at the 2006 CES on January 4, 2006.
The Z1 computer was a mechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse. It was a binary mechanical calculator that can read instructions from punched tapes.
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer or ABC was the first electronic digital computing device that was designed only to solve linear equations.
Mark I was probably the last electro-mechanical computer that was built by IBM. The first mechanical analog computer "Computer Mark 1" by the Ford Instrument Company was used on aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers and destroyers during the WWII.
ENIAC or short for Electronic Numeric Integrated Automatic Computer is the first electronic computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a range of computing problems.
The "Baby" or the Manchester Small Scale Experimental Machine was the first store-program electronic digital computer.
BINAC or the Binary Automatic Computer, was the first commercial digital computer.
The UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial digital computer that was produced in the US.
The IBM 701 was a general purpose machine that was also known as the "Defense Calculator".
The Electronic Recording Method of Accounting (ERMA) was the first electronic accounting machine that can read MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition on the checks.
Spacewar computer game was the first ever computer game invented by Steve Russell & MIT.
Douglas Engelbart gave a demo about the first mouse (nicknamed because a tail came out the end) and the first windows.
ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was a project of the US Department of Defense. It is the first packet switching network that predates the Internet.
The newly formed company Intel released the 1103. It is the first DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) chip.
The Intel 4004 was the first complete CPU chip and the first commercially available microprocessor.
The Floppy Disk was a data storage medium developed by IBM. It was nicknamed "Floppy" because of it's flexibility.
Robert Metcalfe was a research staff for Xerox when he was asked to build a networking system now known as Ethernet.
Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 computers were marketed by 1972. By 1976, other computers like Apple I & II & TRS-80 & Commodore Pet computers were also marketed.
VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program for personal computers.
The IBM PC was the original version of the IBM PC hardware platform. This started the personal computer revolution.
MS-DOS was the main operating system for personal computers from 1980s up to mid-1990.
Apple's Lisa computer was the first personal computer with a Graphical User Interface (GUI).
Macintosh was the first commercially successful personal computer that has a mouse and GUI.
Microsoft's Windows was first introduced in 1985 to start a friendly competition with Apple.
Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau made the "hypertext" system which is the start of the Internet.
Microsoft released Windows 3.0
The World was the first dialup ISP in the US.
Linux was first introduced by Linus Torvald.
The Worlds Wide Web (WWW) was publicly launched in 1991
Netscape was founded by Marc Andreesen and James H. Clark in 1994. Red Hat Linux and Yahoo! were also founded on the same year.
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 1.0 in 1995 while Apple develops FireWire. Java was introduced in 1995 while USB standard was released on the same year.
In 1996, Google was first developed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Macromedia releases Macromedia Flash 1.0. Sony enters the PC market with the release of VAIO.
By 1997, On January 7th Microsoft releases the final version of Internet Explorer 3.0 for the Apple Macintosh. IEEE releases 802.11 (WiFi) standard. Digital Video Discs / Digital Versatile Discs (DVDs) go on sale. Kaspersky is founded.
In 1998, Microsoft Windows 98 is officially released on June 25, 1998. Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page September 7, 1998. Rockstar Games is founded. MySQL is introduced.
IBM introduces the first Microdrive in 1999, the world's physically smallest hard drive capable of storing 170MB.
By 2001, USB 2.0 is introduced. In 2003, MySpace is founded. Firefox 1.0 is first introduced on November 9, 2004. The blu-ray is first announced and introduced at the 2006 CES on January 4, 2006.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
List of Programming Languages
As a new programmer just like you, we will try to do simple programming based on the given list of programming languages. Although not all of it on the list will be covered, we will try to at least learn about them and try to discover how they work.
We will start with the basic ones and follow the path of the next programming language. We will start off with the basic history of programming. We will also study a bit about the obsolete programming languages. Then, the first programming language we will use is HTML until we can finish with the latest ones.
So let's get ready with our computers and program away!
We will start with the basic ones and follow the path of the next programming language. We will start off with the basic history of programming. We will also study a bit about the obsolete programming languages. Then, the first programming language we will use is HTML until we can finish with the latest ones.
So let's get ready with our computers and program away!
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