EVOLUTION OF COMPUTING

DEVICE (COMPUTERS)

SUBMITTED BY:

Medina, Eric John O.

SUBMITTED TO:

Mrs. Evita Nadja Power

HISTORY/EVOLUTION OF COMPUTING DEVICES/COMPUTERS AND THEIR USES

Computing Device Year Proponent Use

(Inventor)

Tally Sticks  Messaging

 Scheduling
 Financial and
Late Upper Legal
Stone Palaeolithic Transactions
Age  Record
Quantities,
Numbers, or
Messages

Abacus
5000 CHINESE  Arithmetic
YEARS COMMUNITY computations.
AGO, / CHINA

Napier’s Bones
1600  Logarithmic
John Napier Measurements
Industria
l Age

Sliderule
William  Logarithmic
Oughtred scales (lines
1621 etched on
metal or wood)
 Pascaline

 Addition
1642 Blaise Pascal  Subtraction

Leibniz’s Wheel/Step
Reckoner
 Addition,
Gottfried  Subtraction,
1673 Wilhelm von  Multiplication
Leibniz  Division

The Bouchon Loom

1725 Basile  Programing(no

Bouchon t developed)

Bouchon Loom

1745 Joseph M.  Programming

Jacquard (developed
and workable)
Scheutzian Calculation
Engine
Pehr (Per)  Used for
1837 Georg creating
Scheutz logarithmic
tables

Automatic Difference
Engine Charles
Babbage  Construction of
1822 (Father of the Mathematical
Modern tables for
Computer) navigation.

Analytic Engine  Memory unit,

 Arithmetic unit,
Stephen  Automatic
1842 - Hawkin printout,
1843 (developed  Sequential
Charles Program
Babbage Control
idea)

Computer Trail /
Tabulating Machine
 Tabulating
1880 Herman System
(1860- Hollerith  Census
1929) Tabulation
Electronic Computer
(Atanasoff-Berry
Computer) Dr.John
Vincent  Calculations,
Atanasoff  Capacitors for
1939- storage
1942  Use for Binary
Clifford Berry Math

Osborne 1 - The First

Portable Computer
Adam  Used for
1981 Osborne Spreadsheets
 Used for Word
Lee Processing
Felsenstein

Electronic
Computer(first
succcesful)

1943 Colossus I -  Code

Bletchley Breaking
Park  Could not be
re-
programmed
Automatic Sequence
Controlled Calculator
 First electro-
mechanical
computer
1944 Dr. Howard  Capable of
Aiken making logical
decisions

Relay #70 Panel F

(moth) in relay

1947 Grace  Debugged the

Hopper program
 Eliminating
program errors

Electrical Numerical
Integrator and  Used to
Calculator J. Prosper computer
Eckert aircraft
courses,
1946  shell
John W. trajectories,
Mauchly  break codes
during World
War II
 The Transistor

John
Bordeen  Change over
from vacuum
1948 tube circuits to
Waltar transistor
Brattain circuits

William
Shockly

UNIVAC (UNIVersal
Automatic Computer)

 It was not
a one-of-a-
1951 Eckert and kind computer.
Mauchly  It was mass
produced.

Hamilton,
Ernest

1954 S. Hughes,  Used for

Jr., businesses

James J. Troy
 First Electronic
Computer for Business

Integrated Circuits

1960 Jack Kilby  16K RAM

memory
integrated
circuit

Microcomputer
Explosion

1970 - Mers Kutt  Used for

1980 Personal
Comp
 The Apple II  First highly
successful
mass-
Steve produced
1977 Wozniak microcomputer
products.
Steve Jobs  Used for
personal use
computer

IBM Personal
Computer  It could hook up to
the home TV set,
play games,
process text and
1981 Bill Lowe harbor more words
than a fat
cookbook

Macintosh

Steve  Office work, web

Jobs development,
1984 home use, and
Jef Raskin computer
maintenance types
of applications

 Used for cell

Fourth Generation phones, kitchen
Computers appliances,
automobile
 emission-control
and timing devices,
electronic games,
(1971 – Marcian telephone switching
Present) “Ted” Hoff systems, thermal
controls in the
home, and security
systems.
 Storage Capacity  Were 36,000
Memory Capacity, and times
Data Storage faster (450
Megahertz
was the
average
speed)
Had a
memory
capacity 1000
IBM to 5000 times
1990’s - larger (averag
Early e was
2000’s Jay Forrester between 4 and
20
Robert Heath Megabytes)
Dennard  Are 180,000
times
faster (2.5+
Gigahertz is
the average
speed)
Have a
memory
capacity
25,000 times
larger (averag
e 1+
Gigabytes of
RAM)

Fifth Generation
Computers 1982, Japan wa  Used for
s invented the scientific and
(Presen FGCS (Fifth engineering
t– Generation calculations
Furture) Computer and
System) simulations
References:
https://www.cs.uah.edu/~rcoleman/Common/History/History.html
https://notespress.com/evolution-of-computers-history/