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The History of Computers: Aileen Joyce Soriano 10-Hebrew
The History of Computers: Aileen Joyce Soriano 10-Hebrew
Computers
Aileen Joyce Soriano
10-Hebrew
Counting Tables
Picture of ancient
counting tables
Early computer
operation(people)
Abacus
Abacus
John Napier
In 1617 an eccentric (some say mad) Scotsman
named John Napier invented logarithms, which
are a technology that allows multiplication to be
performed via addition.
Ex: log2x = 5
Napiers Bones
Napiers Bones
Slide Rule
Leonardo da Vinci
Calculating Clock
Blaise Pascal
8-digit Pascaline
Pascaline Insides
Leibniz
Stepped Reckoner
Jacquard
Jacquards Loom
By
selecting
particular cards
for Jacquard's
loom you defined
the woven pattern
Close up of a card
Jacquards Loom
Close up of a tapestry
woven by the loom
Charles Babbage
Difference Engine
Babbage-Analytic Engine
Babbage-Analytic Engine
Ada Byron
US Census
Hollerith desk
Hollerith Desk
Hollerith Desk
Hollerith's technique
was successful and the
1890 census was
completed in only 3
years at a savings of 5
million dollars.
IBM
Hollerith built a
company, the
Tabulating Machine
Company which, after a
few buyouts, eventually
became International
Business Machines,
known today as IBM.
Holleriths Inovation
US Military
US Military
Mark I
Mark I
Mark I
Humor
On
Colussus
Eniac
ENIAC
ENIAC
Edvac
Second generation
computers also saw a
new way data was
stored
Punch cards were
replaced with magnetic
tapes and reel to reel
machines
Univac
Computer Programming
in the 70s
Time-Sharing
Teletype
Batch-Mode Processing
Punch Cards
Programming Today
Microprocessor
Microprocessor
Integrated Circuits
The microelectronics
revolution is what
allowed the amount of
hand-crafted wiring
seen in the prior photo
to be mass-produced
as an integrated
circuit which is a small
sliver of silicon the size
of your thumbnail
Integrated Circuits
The IBM PC
Commodore 64
Apple Macintosh
The Amiga
Windows 3
Macintosh System 7
Apple Newton
Standard UNIX
PowerPC
IBM OS/2
Windows 95
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