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    This document provides a timeline of key developments in computer history from ancient calculating devices like the abacus to modern desktop computers. It describes inventions such as the Pascaline mechanical adding machine, punched cards for data storage, Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine used for the 1890 US Census, the first general purpose computer called Mark I, the first electronic computer called ENIAC, the first commercial computer UNIVAC used by the US Census Department, the stored program concept with EDVAC, IBM's Model 701, the first personal computer the Apple II, the IBM PC, and the emergence of portable and multimedia desktop computers. The timeline shows the evolution of computing technology from ancient

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    This document provides a timeline of key developments in computer history from ancient calculating devices like the abacus to modern desktop computers. It describes inventions such as the Pascaline mechanical adding machine, punched cards for data storage, Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine used for the 1890 US Census, the first general purpose computer called Mark I, the first electronic computer called ENIAC, the first commercial computer UNIVAC used by the US Census Department, the stored program concept with EDVAC, IBM's Model 701, the first personal computer the Apple II, the IBM PC, and the emergence of portable and multimedia desktop computers. The timeline shows the evolution of computing technology from ancient

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    This document provides a timeline of key developments in computer history from ancient calculating devices like the abacus to modern desktop computers. It describes inventions such as the Pascaline mechanical adding machine, punched cards for data storage, Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine used for the 1890 US Census, the first general purpose computer called Mark I, the first electronic computer called ENIAC, the first commercial computer UNIVAC used by the US Census Department, the stored program concept with EDVAC, IBM's Model 701, the first personal computer the Apple II, the IBM PC, and the emergence of portable and multimedia desktop computers. The timeline shows the evolution of computing technology from ancient

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    Computer History Timeline

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    The Computer-Key Developments

    • Abacus-calculating device(3000BC)
    Abacus-
    • Is an ancient calculating device.

    • First man made computing device.

    • Is still being used in China, Russia and the


    Far-east countries for calculations.
    Pascaline-mechanical adding
    machine(1642)
    Pascaline-
    • is a desktop mechanical adding machine.

    • This was developed by Blaise Pascal.


    Punched cards-data
    storage(1800s)
    Punched cards-
    • A card punched with holes in certain
    places that a computer can read data
    coded from the combination of holes.

    • This was first used by Joseph Jacquard to


    automate his weaving factory.
    Babbage-Analytical engine(1830s)

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    Analytical Engine-

    • This was invented by Charles Babbage


    who is known as “the father of computers”.

    • Designed to store one thousand 50 digit


    numbers for calculations and decisions.
    Hollerith -
    Tabulating machine(1890s)
    Tabulating machine-
    • This was invented by Herman Hollerith to
    tabulate1890 US census (Poll) data.

    • It was electrically powered and, used


    punched cards.

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    Mark i-General purpose
    computer(1944)
    Mark i-
    • This was invented in 1944 by Dr.Howard
    Aiken.
    • The idea is based on programmable,
    general purpose computer.
    ENIAC-Electronic computer(1946)
    ENIAC-
    • In 1946 John Mauchly and J.Presper
    Eckert introduced the ENIAC as an
    electronic computing machine.
    UNIVAC-
    US Census Department(1951)
    UNIVAC-(UNIVAC-i)
    • It was developed and this is the first
    commercial computer which got large
    amount of public attention.

    UNIVAC
    Programming
    Team
    EDVAC
    (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer)
    Stored Program Concept(1951)
    IBM-701(1953)
    Apple II-
    First personnel computer(1977)
    IBM-PC (1981)
    Portable computers(1987)
    Multimedia Desktop Computers
    (199……)

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