History of Computer

Florante V. Andres, MAEd

 ICT (Computer) Applications
• Business • Banking and Finance • Publishing
• Education • Transport • Arts and Entertainment
• Healthcare • Navigation • Communication
• Retail and Trade • Work from Home • Weather Forecasting
• Government • Military • Booking Vacations
• Marketing • Social and Romance • Robotics
• Science • Security and Surveillance
History of Computer
• Zeroth Generation – 3000 BC - 1940
• First Generation – 1946 – 1958
• Second Generation – 1959 – 1964
• Third Generation – 1965 – 1970
• Fourth Generation – 1971 – Present
• Fifth Generation – Present – Future
Zeroth Generation
• Premechanical – between 3000 BC and 1450 AD
• Mechanical – between 1450 and 1840
• Electro-mechanical – between 1840 and 1940
 Zeroth Generation Slide rule
Napier Bones

Shickard Calculator
Abacus
Pascaline

Jacquard Loom
Charles Babbage
Lady Ada Augusta
Byron

Leibniz Calculator

Arithometer Difference Engine Analytical Engine

First Generation - 1946 – 1958
• Electronic – first generation to fifth generation
• Vacuum tube, microsecond
• Mainframe, miniframe
First Generation - 1946 – 1958
Enigma

ABC Computer
Harvard Mark I

Z3
ENIAC
First Generation - 1946 – 1958

EDVAC UNIVAC

EDSAC
Second Generation
• 1959 – 1964
• Transistor
• Miniframe
• millisecond
• personal computer
Second Generation
Third Generation
• 1965 – 1970
• nanosecond
• Integrated circuit
• Personal computer, laptops Jack Kilby Robert Noyce
Third Generation

RCA Spectra 70
PDP 8

IBM 360
Fourth Generation
• 1971 – Present
• Micro-processor chips
• picosecond
Motorola 6800
• Laptops, handheld devices

Intel 4004

Marcian “Ted” Hoff

 MS-DOS

Fourth Generation BASIC language

Mark-8

MITS Altair
Windows
 Fourth Generation
Apple II

Apple I

Lisa

Steve Wozniak

Macintosh
Steve Jobs
Fourth Generation

William Henry “Bill” Gates III and Paul G. Allen

Of Microsoft Corporation
Tim Berners-Lee
Fifth Generation
• Artificial Intelligence
• Game Playing
• Robotics
• Expert System
• Natural Language
• Neural Networks