Computers

  • The analytical machine

    The Analytical Engine incorporated an arithmetic logic unit, control flow in the form of conditional branching and loops, and integrated memory
  • Holes in cards

    Was an electromechanical machine designed to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting.
  • ENIAC

    It was a secret World War II military project
  • Von Neumann architecture

    An architecture based on that described in 1945 by the mathematician and physicist John von Neumann
  • UNIVAC

    A line of electronic digital stored-program computers
  • UNIX operating system

    Is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix
  • Altair

    The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU
  • CRAY-1

    Was a supercomputer designed, manufactured and marketed by Cray Research.
  • Apple

    An American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer, computer software, and online services.
  • First electronic spreadsheet

    An interactive computer application for organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form
  • l. Macintosh

    A series of personal computers (PCs) designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc.
  • Windows

    A graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft.
  • PC

    Personal Computer
  • High-level programming language

    A programming language such as C, FORTRAN, or Pascal that enables a programmer to write programs that are more or less independent of a particular type of computer