task 04

part 1

BY ALBA FORTES AND CARLA GIL

HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

PRESS START

the turing machine

1939

The first ever computer engineered to combat the encriptions made by Nazi's enigma machine

the eniac

1946

consist of vaccum tubesthe first general purpose computer took space of a huge room

the modem

1949

the early modems were used by the US Air Force in the 1950's but the first commercial ones were made a decade later

held 5mB of data and was as big as 2 refridgerators

the ramac

the RAMAC

the first hard drive

1957

IBM ships this hard drive for a whopping 10000$ per megabyte

fortran

1957

he first ever programming language using english instead of unintelligable numbers,it was suited for numeric computation and scientific calculation

the mouse

1964

the mouse firts started using a trackball , made by a team led by Rainer Mallebrein at Telefunken konstanz, for the GermanBundesanstalt fÜr flugsicherung as part of their TR 86 process computer system

the arpanet was the dad of the internet we all know and love. Four different computers linked up at the time, with the message "lo" rather than login as they planned due to the a not so powerful system

THE ARPANET

THE RAM

1969

1968

dennard's invention greatly increased memory density at the cost of volatility, and RAM was born

the intel 4004 was the first commercially available microprocessor made by Federico Faggin. Maximum clock rate was 740kHz able to directly address 640bytes of ram

intel 4004

mp944

1971

1970

the mp944 was the world's first microprocessor used on US millatry aircrafts like the F-14

Developed by Dennis ritchie at the At&T bell labs. It is now the most widely used languages of all time

the programming language

the floppy disk

1971

1972

They became commercially available in 1971 part of IBM products. Later on they were sold separately by memorex and others

the first personal computer based on the intel8008 cpu, ran on the altair basic, 200khz to 800khz

the altair 8800

the ethernet cable

1973

1975

developed at xerox parc. Ethernet datas transfer rates have been increased from the original 2.94 mb/s to the latest 100 gb/s per second

C**

the apple 2

1977

1979

ran on integer basic, 4 to 64kB ram, MOS6502 cpu, 5069$ in todays price

part 2

THE HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

PRESS START

released augest 12, 1981, created under the direction of don estridge. Popularised the term PC as personal computers

the ibm pc

msdos

1980

1981

IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new pc. the pair buy the rights to a simple operating systems

the macintosh was the first mass-market PC featuring a Graphical interface. Itn was however quite expensive and that hurt its ability to compete with the commadore and ibm

the macintosh

commadore 64

1982

1984

about 12 million units sold highest selling computer of all time. 64 kB of ram

windows 1.0 was the front end of ms-dos it could multitask and had more graphical support

windows 1.0

MAC OS

1985

1984

brought the graphical interface to everyday life. It was one of the first few to use it.

the first photoshop had no layers but had a few selections of filters, brushes and file types. Only one undo and had no line preview

PHOTOSHOP

html

1990

not many people were involved in website creation at the time, and the language was very limiting. There really wasn't much you could do with it but getting some simple text onto web

It's the sucesor of the intel 486. It started from being the top of the line processor at the time

INTEL PENTIUM

WORLD WIDE WEB

1993

1991

This was the first chapter of the information age.At the beggining was backed by one computer only

code named chicago, a major update from windows 3.1x, with the start button. It brought more users to the internet via the preloaded internet exploer

microsoft windows 95

play station 1