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Computer Development

The document traces the history and development of key computer technologies from the 19th century through the 1990s, including the development of punch cards for census data, early programmable computers like the Z1 and ENIAC, the invention of the transistor and integrated circuit, the creation of programming languages like FORTRAN and COBOL, the development of floppy disks and the first portable laptop in the 1970s, and the release of early software programs and 3D games in the late 20th century.

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Computer Development

The document traces the history and development of key computer technologies from the 19th century through the 1990s, including the development of punch cards for census data, early programmable computers like the Z1 and ENIAC, the invention of the transistor and integrated circuit, the creation of programming languages like FORTRAN and COBOL, the development of floppy disks and the first portable laptop in the 1970s, and the release of early software programs and 3D games in the late 20th century.

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In 1890, Herman Hollerith developed a method for

machines to record and store information onto


punch cards to be used for the US census. He later
formed the company we know as IBM
(International Business Machines) today.
The Z1 originally created by Germany's Konrad Zuse
in 1936 to 1938 is considered to be the first
electrical binary programmable computer.

In 1946, John Mauchly and John Presper


Eckert developed the ENIAC I (Electrical
Numerical Integrator And Calculator).1st
type of Computer

In 1947/48 John Bardeen, William


Shockley, and Walter Brattain, at the
Bell Telephone Laboratories invented
Transistor

The first computer company was the


Electronic Controls Company and
was founded in 1949 by J. Presper
Eckert and John Mauchly, the same
individuals who helped create the
ENIAC computer.

In 1951 First commercial computer or


Universal Automatic Computer or
UNIVAC was developed by John Presper
Eckert & John W. Mauchly.

Remington Rand became the first


American manufacturers of a commercial
computer system. It sold Forty-six
UNIVAC computers

FORTRAN or formula translation was the


first high level programming language
(software) invented by John Backus for IBM
in 1954.
In 1953 Grace Hopper invented the first
high-level language, "Flow-matic". This
language eventually became COBOL.
Grace Hopper also constructed the world's
first compiler or A high-level language

Developed in 1955 at Stanford Research


Institute, Bank of America, and General
Electric
ERMA (Electronic Recording Method
of Accounting computer processing
system) and
MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) ;

The first bank industry computer . An


effort to computerize the banking
industry

In 1958 Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce


invented The Integrated Circuit
(IC) OR CHIP
in 1962 Steve Russell created the
first popular computer game.
Starwar
In 1964 Douglas Engelbart
invented the computer mouse

In 1965 James Russell invented the


Compact Disk or CD

in 1969 ARPAnet - The First Internet


was developed.

In November, 1971, Intel company


introduced the world's first single
chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004
invented by Intel engineers Federico
Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stanley Mazor.

In 1971, IBM introduced the first


"memory disk", or the "floppy
disk . Invented by IBM engineers
led by Alan Shugart.
The IBM 5100 is the first portable
computer or Laptop, which was
released on September 1975.

In 1981, IBM created its first


personal home-use computer called
the IBM PC

Released in 1979 by Micropro


International, WordStar was the first
commercially successful word processing
software program
VisiCalc was the first
computer spreadsheet program. It was
released to the public in 1979, running on
an Apple IIcomputer.

In 1976, the inkjet printer was invented,


In 1938, Chester Carlson invented a dry
printing process called
electrophotography commonly called a
Xerox
The original laser printer called EARS was
developed at the Xerox Palo Alto
Research Center beginning in 1969 and
completed in November, 1971.

First 3D game, The game Duke Nukem 3D


is released January 29, 1996.
Java is a programming language and
environment invented by James Gosling
and others in 1994. Java was originally
named Oak and was developed as a part
of the Green project at the Sun Company.

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