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History and Development of Computers

Early computing devices included the abacus, Napier's bones, and the slide rule. The first automatic calculator was invented by Schickard in 1623. Pascaline, invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642, was one of the first mechanical calculators capable of addition and subtraction. Later devices like the Analytical Engine and Tabulating Machine introduced concepts like conditional branching and integrated memory. The first programmable digital computer was the Harvard Mark I, created in 1944. Subsequent innovations included the first commercial computer (Z4), first general purpose electronic computer (ENIAC), and first mass produced computer (UNIVAC). Integrated circuits and microprocessors defined the third generation of computers, enabling smaller
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History and Development of Computers

Early computing devices included the abacus, Napier's bones, and the slide rule. The first automatic calculator was invented by Schickard in 1623. Pascaline, invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642, was one of the first mechanical calculators capable of addition and subtraction. Later devices like the Analytical Engine and Tabulating Machine introduced concepts like conditional branching and integrated memory. The first programmable digital computer was the Harvard Mark I, created in 1944. Subsequent innovations included the first commercial computer (Z4), first general purpose electronic computer (ENIAC), and first mass produced computer (UNIVAC). Integrated circuits and microprocessors defined the third generation of computers, enabling smaller
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Early

Computing
Devices
Zero Generation
Abacus
• Invented by the Babylonians during 300 BC.

• It is also called a counting frame.

• It is a calculating tool used primarily in parts of Asia


for performing arithmetic process.

• Today, it is often constructed as a bamboo frame


with beads sliding on wires, but originally they
were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand
or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal.
ABACUS
Napier’s Bones
• It is also called Napier‟s Rods.

• Invented by John Napier in the year 1617 in


Scotland.

• It is used for calculation of products and


quotients of numbers that was based on Arab
Mathematics and lattice
multiplication.
Napier’s Bones
Schickard’s Calculator
• Invented by Wilhelm Schickard in Germany.

• It is the first automatic calculator.


Schickard’s
Calculator
Slide Rule
• Invented by William Oughtred in the 17th century.

• It is also known colloquially as a slipstick.

• It is a mechanical analog computer.

• It is used primarily for multiplication and division,


and also for functions such as roots, logarithms
and trigonometry, but it is normally used for
addition and subtraction.
Slide Rule
Pascaline
• Invented by Blaise Pascal in the year 1642.

• He conceived it while trying to help his father


who had been assigned the task of reorganizing
the task revenues of a French province.

• It is capable of adding and subtracting


numbers. When it needs to multiply it uses
repeated addition while it uses repeated
subtraction for division.
Pascaline
Leibniz Calculator
• Invented by Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz in the
year 1673 but it wasn‟t completed until the year
1694.
• It is also called stepped reckoner.

• It can add, subtract, multiply and divide.

• It is a mechanical device made up of copper


and steel.
Leibniz
Calculator
Jacquard’s Loom
• Invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in the year 1801.

• The loom is controlled by punched cards with


punched holes, each row of which corresponds to
one row of the design.

• The function of copy pasting in our present day


computers came from here.
Jacquard’s
Loom
Difference Engine
• Invented by Charles Babbage in the year 1822.

• It is an automatic, mechanical calculator.

• It is designed to tabulate polynomial functions. Both


logarithmic and trigonometric functions can be approxim
by polynomials, so a difference engine can compute man
useful sets of numbers.
Difference
Engine
Analytical Engine
• Invented by Charles Babbage in the year 1837.

• It incorporated an arithmetical unit, control flow


in the form of conditional branching and loops,
and integrated memory.

• It is the first Turing-complete design for a general


purpose
computer.

• It is controlled by punched cards


Analytical
Engine
Tabulating Machine
• Invented by Herman Hollerith.

• It also called Hollerith Desk or census.

• It is an electrical device designed to assist in


summarizing information and, later, accounting.

• It was made for IBM or “International Business


Machines”.
Tabulating
Machine
1 st Generation
Harvard Mark I
• It is invented by Howard Aiken and Grace Murray
Hopper
for IBM on August 7, 1944.

• It is the first programmable digital computer made


in the United States.

• It began computations for the U.S. Navy Bureau of


ships.

• It has been described as “the beginning era of the


modern computer” and “the real dawn of the
computer age”.
Harvard
Mark I
Colossus
• Invented by Tommy Flowers with input from Harry
Fensom, Allen Coombs, Sidney Broadhurst and
William Chandler in Britain.

• It was used to read encrypted German messages


during the second World War.

• It uses vacuum tubes to perform calculations.


Colossus
Z1
• Invented by Konrad Zuse in Germany in the year 1938.

• It is a binary electrically driven mechanical


calculator with limited programmability.

• It reads instructions from punched tape.

• It was destroyed in the bombardment of Berlin in


December 1943, during World War II, together with
all construction plans.
Z1
Z2
• It is an improvement to the Z1 by Konrad Zuse in the
year 1939.
• It uses the same mechanical memory as the Z1 but
replacing the arithmetic and control logic with
electric relay circuits.

• Photographs and plans for it were destroyed by


the Allied bombing during World War II.
Z2
Z3
• Invented by Konrad Zuse in the year 1941.

• It is the world‟s first working programmable, fully


automatic computing machine.

• It was destroyed in 1943 during the World War II


during an Allied bombardment of Berlin.
Z3
Z4
• Invented by Konrad Zuse and his company Zuse
Apparatebau in the year 1945.

• It is the world‟s first commercial digital computer.

• It was completed in Gottingen in a facility of the


Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt which was
headed by Albert Betz.
Z4
ENIAC
• Invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at
the University of Pennsylvania on October 2, 1955.

• It means Electronic Numerical Integrator and


Computer. It was also called “ Giant Brain”.
• It is the first general-purpose electronic computer.

• It is a Turing-complete digital computer capable of


being reprogrammed to solve a full range of
computing problems.
ENIAC
UNIVAC
• Invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly

• Design work was begun by their company, Eckert-


Mauchly Computer Corporation, and was
completed after the company had been
acquired by Remington Rand.

• It is the first computer to be mass produced.

• It has 5200 vacuum tubes.

• It is also called Universal Automatic Computer.


UNIVAC
EDVAC
• It is also called Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic
Computer.

• It is invented by J. Presper Eckert and John


Mauchly in the year 1946.

• Unlike its predecessor the ENIAC, it was binary


rather than decimal, and was a stored program
machine.
EDVAC
2 nd Generation
COBOL LANGUAGE

• one of the oldest computer language

• its acronym stands for COmmon


Business Oriented Language.
FORTRAN LANGUAGE
• its acronym stands for Formula
Translator.
• It is a general-purpose, imperative
programming language that is
especially suited to numeric
computation and scientific computing.
Bug
• A computer bug is usually known as a mistake in the
computer or damage in the system
• The term is coined by Grace Hopper when she
encountered a computer problem caused by a
moth in the computer.
ABC Computer
• It is invented by John Atanasoff and Clifford
Berry. It was designed in the year 1937 but was
fully tested in the year 1941.

• It is the first electronic digital computing device.


ABC
Computer
3 rd Generation
• It used IC (Integrated Circuits)
• Invented by Jack St. Claire Kilby and Robert Noyce
• More reliable than the previous three (3)
generations
• Smaller in size
• Generated less heat
• Faster
• Lesser maintenance
• Still costly
• Needs air conditioning (AC) unit
• Consumes less electricity
• Supported High Level Languages
COMMODORE 64
• The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer
introduced by Commodore International in January
1982.
• It features 64 kilobytes (65,536 bytes) of memory,
hence the name, with sound and graphics
performance that were superior to IBM-compatible
computers of that time.
• commonly known as the C64
COMMODORE 64
PDP-8
The PDP-8 is 12-bit
and was produced by
Digital Equipment
Corporation and is the
first successful
commercial
minicomputer
PDP-11
(PROGRAMMED DATA PROCESSOR-11)
• It is one of the
most famous
computers in
computing
history
• Manufactured
by Digital
Equipment
Corporation
from the early
1960s through
the mid-1990s.
4 th Generation
4th Generation Computers:
• These are computers which used VLSI
chips for both CPU and memory

VLSI Chip Microprocessor


Microprocessors
• A silicone chip that
contains a Central
Processing Unit or
CPU
• It is the heart or
mind of many
machines
• It can also be
called a „logic
chip‟ or
„microchip‟
Altair 8800
• This is referred to as “the
first personal computer”
in the year 1975
• It was designed by Ed
Roberts, one of the
founders of Micro
Instrumentation Telemetry
Systems.
• The BASIC programming
language designed was
developed by Bill Gates
and Paul Allen.
Apple I
• It is hand-built by Steve Wozniak, but the one who
had the idea to sell it was Steve Jobs.

• It was demonstrated on April 1976 but it was sold


on July 1976.

• It is an early personal computer.


APPLE I
Apple II
• It is designed by Steve Wozniak and manufactured
by Apple Computer (Apple Inc.)

• It was introduced in the year 1977.

• It is an 8-bit home computer, one of the first highly


successful mass-produced microcomputer products.
APPLE II
Macintosh 128k
• The original Apple Macintosh personal
computer was released on January
22, 1984.
• It is designed to achieve adequate
graphics performance.
• The first mass-market computer
featuring an integral graphic user
interface and a mouse
Macintosh
128k
IBM Personal Computer
• This was invented by
a team of twelve
with Don Estridge as
the leader in 1981
and it was
introduced
commercially on
August 12, 1981
Windows by Microsoft
• Developed by
Microsoft, owned
by Bill Gates in 1985
• Done in
Albuquerque, New
Mexico
• GUI (Graphical User
Interface) that uses
graphics or pictures
that help users use
the computer
Fifth Generation
● It interprets means and method of making
computers think like human beings
● AI includes:
○ Robotics
○ Neural Networks
○ Game Playing
○ Development of expert systems to make
decisions in real life situations
○ Natural Language understanding and
generation
● ULSI (Ultra Large Scale Integrated
Circuit) Technology
● Development of True Artificial
Intelligence
● Development of Natural Language
Processing
● Advancement in Parallel Processing
● Advancement in Superconductor
Technology
Inventions in the
th
5 Generation

S-Libay
S-Cabaluna
S-Agasin
T-Natividad
Artificial
Intelligence
• The intelligence
exhibited by
machines or
software.
• The study in creating
computers and
computer software
that are capable of
intelligent behavior.
John McCarthy
• The founder of
Artificial Intelligence
• Developed the LISP
programming
language family
• Popularized time-
sharing
• Very influential in the
early development
of AI.
Robotics
• It is concerned with
creating robots,
devices that can
move and react to
sensory input.

• The first robot was


invented by George
Devol in 1954 and was
named the Unimate.
Game Playing
• The specific way in which players
interact with a game.
• This was made because there has
been a great fascination in pitting
the human expert against the Deep Blue
computer.
Neural Network

• A type of artificial
intelligence that
attempts to imitate the
way a human brain
works.
• It works by creating
connections between
processing elements,
the computer
equivalent of neurons.
Natural Language
Generation

It investigates how to build


computer programs that
produce high-quality text
from computer-internal
representations of
information.
Voice Recognition Parallel Processing
• The ability of a machine or • The simultaneous use of more
program to receive and than one CPU to execute a
interpret dictation program.
• It was invented by Ray Kurzweil • It was produced by IBM
Virtual Reality
• The use of technology to create
the illusion of presence in an
environment that isn‟t really
there.

• The first type of multimedia


device in the form of an
interactive theatre experience,
devised by Morton Heilig, and
known as the „Sensorama‟.
Eye Scanner
3D Printers
• It is a device used to
make a 3-Dimensional
object from a 2D
image.
• Layers of material are
put down on each
other under a
computer‟s control to
make such an object.
Supercomputers • Developed and enhanced
computers that have a very
high computational capacity
(performance measured by
FLOPS or Floating Point
Operations per Second)
• Can contain a large amount
Data compared to regular
computers.
CRAY-X-MP (Super Computer)
• The invention of the
microprocessor led
to a more powerful
computers that
were developed
such as this
extremely powerful
supercomputers.
• Deep Blue is the
supercomputer that
beat the world chess
champion Garry
Kasparov in a match
in 1997.
• Invented by IBM
• Developed in
1996
• Made in
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
Touchscreen Tablets
• Tablets are famously known for their sensitive
touchscreen features.
• They have a very special operating software that
enables them to have these features.
Smartphones
• It is a phone with a very
advanced mobile operating
system that can function as
both a mobile touchscreen
phone and a computer.
Smartwatches
A smartwatch is a kind of wearable
technology that is capable of
some of the many features and abilities
of a smartphone.
Google Glass
• A type of technology with
an optical head-mounted
display (OHMD).
The Google Self-Driving Car
• Commonly abbreviated as SDC
• A project by Google X that involves developing
technology for autonomous cars, mainly electric
cars.
• It features a car that needs no driver
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