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GROUP 5 REPORTERS:
ZETH GUNSAY
JERALD PAUL BACLIG
MARK DAVID SAPON
MARK JOSEPH PAGGADUAN
ROLDAN REPOMANTA
JOSHUA VIERNES
JEMAR NATIVIDAD
 BRIEF HISTORY OF
COMPUTER
• The naïve understanding of computation had to overcome
before the true power of computing could be realized. The
inventors who worked tirelessly to bring the computer into the
world had to realize that what they were creating was more
than just a number cruncher or a calculator. They had to
address all of the difficulties associated with inventing such a
machine, implementing the design, and actually building the
thing. The history of the computer is the history of these
difficulties being solved.
 19 TH
CENTURY
• 1801- Joseph Marie Jacquard, a French merchant and inventor invents a loom that
uses punched wooden cards to automatically weave fabric designs. Early computers
would use similar punch cards.
• 1822 – Charles Babbage, a mathematician, invented the steam-powered calculating
machine capable of calculating number tables. The “Difference Engine” idea failed
owing to a lack of technology at the time.
• 1848 – The world’s first computer program was written by Ada Lovelace, an English
mathematician. Lovelace also includes a step-by-step tutorial on how to compute
Bernoulli numbers using Babbage’s machine.
• 1890 – Herman Hollerith, an inventor, creates the punch card technique
used to calculate the 1880 U.S. census. He would go on to start the
corporation that would become IBM.
 EARLY 20 TH

CENTURY
• 1930 – Differential Analyzer was the first large-scale automatic general-purpose
mechanical analogue computer invented and built by Vannevar Bush.
• 1936 – Alan Turing had an idea for a universal machine, which he called
the Turing machine, that could compute anything that could be
computed.
• 1939 – Hewlett-Packard was discovered in a garage in Palo Alto,
California by Bill Hewlett and David Packard.
• 1941 – Konrad Zuse, a German inventor and engineer, completed his Z3
machine, the world’s first digital computer. However, the machine was
destroyed during a World War II bombing strike on Berlin.
• 1941 – J.V. Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry devise a
computer capable of solving 29 equations at the same time. The first
time a computer can store data in its primary memory.
• 1945 – University of Pennsylvania academics John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert create
an Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC). It was Turing-complete and
capable of solving “a vast class of numerical problems” by reprogramming, earning it the
title of “Grandfather of computers.”
• 1946 – The UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer) was the first general-purpose
electronic digital computer designed in the United States for corporate applications. And the
invented is John Mauchly and J. Presper.
• 1949 – The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), developed by a
team at the University of Cambridge, is the “first practical stored-program computer.”
• 1950 – The Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC) was built in Washington, DC,
and it was the first stored-program computer completed in the United States.
 LATE 20TH CENTURY
• 1953 – Grace Hopper, a computer scientist, creates the first computer language, which
becomes known as COBOL, which stands for COmmon, Business-Oriented Language. It
allowed a computer user to offer the computer instructions in English-like words rather than
numbers.
• 1954 – John Backus and a team of IBM programmers created the FORTRAN
programming language, an acronym for FORmula TRANslation. In addition, IBM
developed the 650.
• 1958 – The integrated circuit, sometimes known as the computer chip,
was created by Jack Kirby and Robert Noyce.
• 1962 – Atlas, the computer, makes its appearance. It was the fastest computer in the world
at the time, and it pioneered the concept of “virtual memory.”
• 1964 – Douglas Engelbart proposes a modern computer prototype that
combines a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI).
• 1969 – Bell Labs developers, led by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie,
revealed UNIX, an operating system developed in the C programming
language that addressed program compatibility difficulties.
• 1970 – The Intel 1103, the first Dynamic Access Memory
(DRAM) chip, is unveiled by Intel.
• 1971 – The floppy disc was invented by Alan Shugart and a team of IBM engineers.
In the same year, Xerox developed the first laser printer, which not only produced
billions of dollars but also heralded the beginning of a new age in computer printing.
• 1973 – Robert Metcalfe, a member of Xerox’s research department,
created Ethernet, which is used to connect many computers and other
gear.
• 1974 – Personal computers were introduced into the market. The first
were the Altair Scelbi & Mark-8, IBM 5100, and Radio Shack’s TRS-80.
• 1975 – Popular Electronics magazine touted the Altair 8800 as the
world’s first minicomputer kit in January. Paul Allen and Bill Gates offer
to build software in the BASIC language for the Altair.
• 1976 – Apple Computers is founded by Steve Jobs and Steve
Wozniak, who expose the world to the Apple I, the first
computer with a single-circuit board.
• 1977 – At the first West Coast Computer Faire, Jobs and Wozniak
announce the Apple II. It has colour graphics and a cassette drive for
storing music.
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