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Computing chronology
Computing chronology
1614: john Napier invented logarithms 1615: William Oughtred invented the slide rule. 1623: Wilhelm Schickard (1592-1635) invented the mechanical calculating machine. 1645: Blaise Pascal produced a calculator. 1672-74: Gottfried Leibniz built his first calculator, the Stepped Reckoned 1801: Joseph-Marie Jacquard developed an automatic loom controlled by punch cards. 1820: the first mass-mass produced calculator, the arithometer was developed by Charles Thomas de Colmar (1785-1870). 1822: Charles Babbage completed his first model for the difference engine. 1830’s: Babbage created the first design for the analytical engine. 1890: Herman Hollerith developed the punched-card ruler for the US census. 1936: Alan Turing published the mathematical theory of computing. 1938: konerad zuse constructed the first binary calculator, using Boolean algebra. 1939: US mathematician and physicist J V atanasoff become the first to use electronic means for mechanizing arithmetical operations. 1943: the colossus electronic code-breaker was developed at Bletchley Park, England. The Harvard university mark for automatic sequence controlled calculator (partly financed by IBM). 1946: ENIAC (acronym for electronic numerator, integrator analyzer, and computer), the first general purpose, fully electronic digital computer, was completed at the university of Pennsylvania. 1951: Manchester University (England) mark 1, the first stored-programme computer. Whirlwind, the first real-time computer was built for the US air-defense system. Grace Murray Hopper of Remington Rand invented the compiler computer programme. 1953: Mangnetic core memory was developed. 1958:The first integrated circuit was constructed. 1963: The first minicomputer was built by Digital; Equipment (DEC). The first electronic calculator was built by Bill punch Company. 1964: Lunch for IBM system /360, the first compatible family of computer, John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz of Dartmouth College invented BASIC (beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instructed Code), a computer language similar to FORTRAN. 1965: the first supercomputer, the controlled CD6600, was developed. 1971: the first microprocessor, the Intel 404, was announced. 1975: CLIP-4 the first computer with parallel architecture was developed by John Backus at IBM. 1981: the Xerox star system, the first WIMP system (acronym for window, icons, menus and pointing devices), was developed; IBM launched the IBM PC. 1984: Apple launched Macintosh computer. 1985: the Inmos T414 transporter, the “off-the-shelf “microprocessor for building parallel computers, was announced. 1988: the first optical microprocessor, which to store light instead of electricity, was developed. 1989: Water –scale silicon memory chops able to store 200 million charters, were launched. 1990: Microsoft released Window 3, a popular windowing environment for PCs. 1991: IBM developed word’s fastest high-capacity memory computer chip, SRAM (static random access memory), able to send or receive B billion of information per second. 1992: Philip launched the CD-1 (compact disk-interactive) player, based on CD audio technology, to provide interactive multimedia programme for the home user. |
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