Com Prog Reviewer Flashcards
an electronic device that manipulates information, or data
COMPUTER
mechanical device that performs mathematical calculations
invented in Babylonia in 500 B.C.
Abacus
Invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642
Limited to addition and subtraction
too expensive
Pascaline
Invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1672
can add, subtract, multiply and
divide automatically
Stepped Reckoner
a mechanical loom, invented by Joseph-Marie Jacquard in 1801
It an automatic loom controlled by punched cards
Jacquard Loom
an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions
Invented by Charles Babbage in 1822 and 1834
the first mechanical computer
Difference Engine
In 1840, Augusta Ada Byron (first progammer???) (Ada Augusta the Countess of Love Lace/Ada Lovelace) suggests to Babbage that he use the binary system. She writes programs for the Analytical Engine.
Analytical Engine
Invented by Herman Hollerith in 1890
to assist in summarizing information and accounting
Tabulating Machine
Also known as IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC)
Invented by Howard H. Aiken in 1943
The first electro-mechanical computer
Harvard Mark 1
meaning of ASCC
Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator
The first programmable computer
Created by Konrad Zuse in Germany from 1936 to 1937
required that the user insert punch tape
Z1
Alan Turing developed the first electronic computer in 1943
Computer system was a fixed-program computer and it was not programmable
Colossus
the first electronic general purpose computer
Completed in 1946 by John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly.
Eniac
the first commercial computer
designed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly
Univac 1
UNIVAC 1 stands for
UNIVersal Automatic Computer 1
Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
The First Stored Program Computer
Designed by Von Neumann in 1952
Edvac
the first installed electronic computer for business (1954)
IBM 650
FORTRAN
(FORmula TRANslator)
COBOL
(COmmon Business Oriented Language)
LISP
(LISt Processor)
ALGOL
(ALGOrithmic Language)
BASIC
Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
Designed and built by Steve Wozniak in 1976-1977
Made home computing practicable
Apple I and Apple II
In 1981, IBM introduced its first ____ Computer.The first Portable Computer
MS-DOS Computer