GROUP 4

BTVTED-3F

Bizamra Daud Bandahala

Christian Genturales Juaton
Engrano, Judy Mae
Flori-An P. Quijano
Jhondrobin Amman Kadil
Iledan Princess Grace
Mary Pauline Bonifacio
Ramos Joylyn
Rashdn Alh
Sharmaine Joy Penuliar
Shiena Salcedo
Shirley Gamino

TOPIC:

R. EDVAC
S. THE FIRST PORTABLE COMPUTER
T. THE FIRST COMPUTER COMPANY

BASIC COMPUTING PERIOD-AGE

A. PREMECHANINCS
B. MECHANICAL
C. ELECTROMECHANICAL

R. EDVAC
The Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC) was one of the earliest
large mainframe computers to be built in the 1940s. It was the first mainframe computer that
represented binary systems rather than decimal systems. EDVAC was designed in 1944 and built
in the 1940s, before being installed in the U.S. Army’s Ballistics Research Laboratory in
Maryland in August of 1940.
As a binary serial computer, EDVAC processed mathematical operations with a serial memory
capacity of roughly 5.5 kB. EDVAC used magnetic tape as a data media and could run over 20
hours a day. EDVAC was replaced in 1961 by the Ballistic Research Laboratories Electronic
Scientific Computer (BRLESC) which had a larger memory and faster response times.
S. THE FIRST PORTABLE COMPUTER
In April 1981 writer and computer entrepreneur Adam Osborne  and Osborne Computer
Corporation , Hayward, California , produced the first commercially successful "portable"
computer, the Osborne 1 . It weighed twenty-three pounds, ran the CP/M operating system, and
sold for $1795, with $2000 worth of software included. Its main deficiencies were a tiny 5 inch
(13 cm) display screen and use of single sided, single density floppy disk drives which could not
contain sufficient data for practical business applications. Its 23 pound weight meant that the
computer was more "luggable" than portable.

T. THE FIRST COMPUTER COMPANY

Electronic Controls Company

The first computer company was the Electronic Controls Company and was founded in 1949
Page 4 by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the same individuals who helped create the
ENIAC computer.

BASIC COMPUTING PERIOD-AGE

The Premechanical Age: 3000 BC and 1450 AD.
• It is the earliest age of information technology.

• Between the years 3000 BC and 1450 AD

• Its first form: Writing and Alphabets

• Cuneiform (around 3000 BC), then symbols (around 2000 BC).

• Papers and Pens

• Sumerians, Egyptians, Chinese

• Books and Libraries

• The first numbering system is also discovered in this age.

• Egyptians and Hindus in India used the numbering system.

• The numbering system similar to those we use today is invented between 100 and
200 AD.

• The invention of zero comes much later.

• The first calculator is also discovered during this age.

The Mechanical Age: 1450 – 1840.
• This is the age that we observe the first connections between the technology of today and
its ancestors.

• Slide rule is invented (early example of analog computers).

• The first general purpose computers are developed.

• "computer: one who works with numbers."

• This is the age that we observe the first connections between the technology of
today and its ancestors.

• Slide rule is invented (early example of analog computers).

• The first general purpose computers are developed.

• "computer: one who works with numbers."

• Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline machine.

• Difference engine is invented by Charles Babbage.

• Ada Lovelace is the first programmer.

• Punch cards is the another development in this era.

• Introduced in 1801

• Binary logic

• Fixed program operating in real time.

The Electromechanical Age: 1840 - 1940. The Electronic Age: 1940 - Present.

• The most important advance in this era is to use electricity.

• The developments in this age are the beginnings of communication.

• Telegraph (early 1800s), radio

• Morse Code
 • Telephone (examples in 1876, 1930, 1970 respectively).

• The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

Mark I around 1940

• Programmed by using punch cards (no storing)