CAPITOL UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF COMPUTER STUDIES
IT 107 - (Information Technology Fundamentals)
Name: Irish Shane B. Bascos Date: December 7,2022
Activity 1 (Midterm)
Instructions: Take note that you are required to read the materials
under History of Computing. Summarize the history of computing by
supplying or putting information in a specific generation or era. You
can include devices invented on that era and a little bit of information
about it.
Vacuum tube
The vacuum tube, used up to this time in almost all the computers and calculating machines, had been
invented by American physicist Lee De Forest in 1906. The vacuum tube, which is about the size of a
human thumb, worked by using large amounts of electricity to heat a filament inside the tube until it
was cherry red. By using vacuum tubes instead of mechanical relays, computers could move away from
mechanical switching and speed up switching on and off the flow of electrons. Vacuum tubes were also
used in radios, televisions, radar equipment, and telephone systems during the first half of the 1900s
Transistor
Transistors transformed the world of electronics and had a huge impact on computer design. A
transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power. The
transistor is one of the basic building blocks of modern electronics. It is composed of semiconductor
material, usually with at least three terminals for connection to an electronic circuit.
Integrated Circuit
The advent of the integrated circuit revolutionized the electronics industry and paved the way for
devices such as mobile phones, computers, CD players, televisions, and many appliances found around
the home. In addition, the spread of the chips helped to bring advanced electronic devices to all parts
of the world.
Microprocessor
In 1971, the first microprocessor Intel 4004 was invented. Microprocessor is the central unit of a
computer system that performs arithmetic and logic operations, which generally include adding,
subtracting, transferring numbers from one area to another, and comparing two numbers. It's often
known simply as a processor, a central processing unit, or as a logic chip. It has ALU (arithmetic and
logic unit), a control unit, registers, bus systems and a clock to perform computational tasks.
CAPITOL UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF COMPUTER STUDIES
IT 107 - (Information Technology Fundamentals)
You will be graded base on the following criteria with a total of 15 pts:
Need
Approaching Good
improvement Excellent (5pts)
Standards (2pts) (3-4pts)
(0 – 1pt)
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closely. a bit awkward. done!
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job.
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