Computer Ch – 1 Evolution of Computers Std – 5

 Inventors and their invented machine

Inventors Invented Machine

Blaise Pascal Pascal’s Calculator or Pascaline
Leibniz Leibniz Calculator
Charles Babbage Difference engine and Analytical engine
Augusta Ada Lovelace First programmer
George Boole Boolean Logic Theory
Dr Herman Hollerith Tabulating Machine
John Von Neumann, Presper Eckert and John EDVAC
Mauchly
Howard Aiken Mark I
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert ENIAC
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert UNIVAC I
Herman Hollerith Punched cards

 Types of computers

Types of computer No. of users Used in Example

Micro Computer - Homes, office, shops, banks, etc Commodore 64
IBM PC
Mini Computer 4 to 200 users Banks, universities, big PDP–8
organizations
Mainframe Computer More than 100 Large business organizations, IBM Z series
users universities, banks, scientific PDP-10
laboratories, airline & railway System Z 10
ticket reservation, stock
exchange markets etc.
Super Computer - Weather forecasting, space CRAY-1
research, satellite control, etc CRAY -2
PARAM
Tianhe-2
Sunway TaihuLight
  Some Notes
1. Father of computer – Charles Babbage
2. Father of personal computer – Andre Truong Trong Thi
3. First programmer – Lady Augusta Ada Lovelace
4. First general purpose electronic digital computer – ENIAC
5. First computer to handle both numeric and text data – UNIVAC
6. First automatic sequence controlled calculator – Mark I
7. World’s fastest super computer – Summit
8. First mechanical device for calculation – 3000-BC Abacus
9. First commercial mechanical calculator – Thomas Arithmometer
10. ENIAC – Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
11. EDVAC – Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
12. UNIVAC – Universal Automatic Computer