HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

OBJECTIVES:

1. Name and describe the computers from

the past to the present
2. Name the inventors of each computer
invention
3. State the five generations of computer
• MECHANICAL COMPUTERS
. These are the computers invented
during early years with no electricity.
• ELECTRONIC MACHINES
These are the machines invented
using electricity.
MECHANICAL COMPUTERS
ANTIKYTHERA
• Is a mechanical calculator
coming from Ancient Greece.
Used to calculate astronomical
positions which means, positions
of stars, planets, comets,
galaxies etc.
ABACUS
•The first computer ever made
and was also known as the
Counting Frame. A calculator
made out of bamboo wood and
stones.
NAPIER’S RODS
OR
NAPIER’S BONES
• It is made out of bones or sticks of
wood. It added, multiplied,
divide, took square root and cube
root. Invented by John Napier.
CALCULATING
CLOCK
• Calculating Clock was invented by
German mathematician named
Wilhelm Schickard in 1623. It is
known as the first mechanical
calculator. It was about the size of a
typewriter and could add, subtract,
multiply and divide.
PASCALINE
• The Pascaline was invented by French man
named Blaise Pascal in 1642. This
Calculator had 8 figures and carried 10’s,
1100’s, and 1000’s. The calculations were
done using little stones to add and
subtract.
STEP
RECKONER/S
TEPPED
RECKONER
•Invented by famous German
mathematician Gottfried
Wilhelm Leibniz in 1671. Used
to calculate/perform four basic
operations.
JACQUARD
LOOM
Invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in
1801. The loom was controlled by punch
cards with punched holes, each row of
which corresponds to one row of the
design.
DIFFERENCE
ENGINE
Difference Engine is used to compute
mathematical tables. Designed by British
mathematician named Charles Babbage-
The father of modern computer.
TABULATING
MACHINE
This machine was built to restore
data through punch cards. It was
initially used in preparing the
population census of the United
States.
TURING MACHINE
The computing machine manipulates
symbols on a strip of tape according
to a table of rules and it was
designed by Alan Turing in 1936-
1937.
ELECTRONIC MACHINES
ABC (Atanasoff-Berry
Computer)
It was the first electronic computer which
was invented at Iowa State University
between 1939 and 1942. It represent
several innovations in computing, including
a binary system of arithmetic, parallel
processing, regenerative memory, and a
separation of memory and computing
functions. Develop by John Atanasoff and
Clifford Berry.
ENIAC (Electronic
Numerical
Integrator and
Computer
Built in 1946 by William
Shockley with his associates.
This led to the invention of
the Transistor, which
replaced the vacuum tubes in
computer.
 EDVAC
(Electronic
Discrete
Variable
Automatic
Computer
EDVAC was one of the earliest
electronic computers. This
was invented by John Maucly
and J. Presper Eckert.