The Development of Information Technology

* 1945 - John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert built the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) for the US military and went on to market the UNIVAC 1 in 1949.

* 1552 - UNIVAC predicted Eisenhower's victory with 5% of vote. Grace Hopper and symbolic notation, making programming easier.

* 1958 - Transistors

* 1958 to 1964 - US computer population went from 2,500 to 18,000

* Mid 1960's Integrated Circuits (IC's)

* 1965 - DEC and the minicomputer

* 1969 - Hoff at Intel developed 4004 microprocessor

* 1976 - Apple, Tandy and Commodore sell personal computers

Four Generations and Counting

* Generation 1: Vacuum tubes and relays, 1951 - 1956

* Generation 2: Transistors, 1956 - mid 1960's

* Generation 3: Integrated circuits (IC's), Mid 1960's - 1969

* Generation 4: Microprocessor: 1969 - today

Advantages of Future Generation Computers

* Reliability. Computers are less prone to failure.

* Size. Computers are smaller.

* Speed. Computers are faster.

* Efficiency. Computers use less electricity.

Communication with friends, family and co-workers

In today's society, networking has a huge role to play. Millions of companies, members of the public and almost everyone else it seems are becoming networked together. Billions of computers are streaming data back and forth. A network is a connecting of computers to allow transfer of data. These computers may be connected in a number of ways. The most common is Ethernet, there are also

Token Ring connections by IBM. Businesses today mainly use Ethernet as their default communication link. As in our lives where we have a multi-cultured society where people of all different ethnic and racial backgrounds communicate over a common language, networks today also have a multi-background society. This is a network of multiple flavours of system, UNIX LINUX OS2 WINDOWS, So we have a variety of computer types in networks these days, for these computers to communicate successfully, we need to use a common communication method so they will all understand and be able to chat with each other. Ethernet is a way of connecting multiple computers together so they may chat.

Name: Simon Marriott GNVQ Intermediate ICT St.Ignatius Collage

No: 6690 Unit 12 12532

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