Computers In General
* Computers are everywhere - look around your daily lives
* Our lives are affected in all kinds of ways by their functions. They have become central to our society.
General Time Line
* Pascal - mechanical calculator
* Babbage and Lovelace - Analytical Machine
* Holrith - punch cards
* 1939 - First 'Real' Computer
o German engineering student Konrad Zuse built first computer from relays
o Iowa State professor John Atanasoff built the ABC for solving differential equations
* 1944 - Harvard professor Howard Aiken built the Mark I, which could calculate about 5 or 6 times faster than a person
* Computers are everywhere - look around your daily lives
* Our lives are affected in all kinds of ways by their functions. They have become central to our society.
General Time Line
* Pascal - mechanical calculator
* Babbage and Lovelace - Analytical Machine
* Holrith - punch cards
* 1939 - First 'Real' Computer
o German engineering student Konrad Zuse built first computer from relays
o Iowa State professor John Atanasoff built the ABC for solving differential equations
* 1944 - Harvard professor Howard Aiken built the Mark I, which could calculate about 5 or 6 times faster than a person