The abacus was the first

device to help humans The first digital computer was It was one of the first
in solving arithmetic invented, it was programmed by a general-purpose
series of punched cards that computers.
problems.
contained the Instructions data.

(500 BC) (1642) (1834) (1930) (1945)

The Abacus The Pascaline The first digital Analog Machine The ENIAC
computer
It emerged with the There are those who
development of integrated
The pascalina was It is an electronic or consider that the
circuits (silicon chips) in
hydraulic device fourth and fifth
the first calculator which thousands of electronic
generations.
that worked with components are placed in a designed to manipulate
wheels and gears. miniature integration. data input.

(1951–1958) (1959–1964) (1964–1971) (1971–1980) (1980-1990)

The UNIVAC Second generation of Third generation of Fourth generation
Fifth and sixth generation
computers. computers of computers

The UNIVAC was the first The second Phase characterized by the
commercial computer generation of integration of the electronic
manufactured in the United computers replaced components, which led to
States, delivered on March 31, vacuum tubes with the appearance of the
1951 to the Census Bureau. transistors. microprocessor, a single
integrated circuit