HISTORY OF COMPUTER:

BASIC COMPUTING
PERIODS
MS. MICHELLE JOY M. VELASCO, LPT, MAED
Objectives
At the end of the chapter, students
must be able to:
Gain familiarity of the different discoveries during the
different periods.
Learn different inventions and discoveries during
electro-mechanical age that lead to the inventions of
today’s technology.
Identify different technologies and their improvements
during the different generations.
Definition of
Computer

Computer is a programmable machine.

Computer is an electronic device that manipulates
information, or data. It has the ability to
store, retrieve, and process data
Computer is a machine that manipulates data according
to a list of instructions (program).
Computer is any device which aids humans in performing
various kinds of computations or
calculations.
 Three principal
characteristics of computer:

It responds to a specific set of instructions in a

well-defined manner.
It can execute a pre-recorded list of
instructions.
It can quickly store and retrieve large amounts
of data.
 Applications of ICT
(Computers) in Our Daily
Lives

Business Education Healthcare Retail and

Trade
 Applications of ICT
(Computers) in Our Daily
Lives

Government Marketing Science Publishing

 Applications of ICT
(Computers) in Our Daily
Lives

Arts and Communication Banking and Transport

Entertainment Finance
 Applications of ICT
(Computers) in Our Daily
Lives

Navigation Working From Military Social and

Home Romance
 Applications of ICT
(Computers) in Our Daily
Lives

Booking Security and Weather Robotics

Vacations Surveillance Forecasting
History of Earliest Computers originally calculations were
computed by humans, whose job title was
Computer computers.
 A tally stick was an ancient memory aid device to
Tally sticks record and document numbers, quantities,
or even messages.
 An abacus is a mechanical device used to aid an
Abacus individual in performing mathematical
calculations.
Napier’s Bones Invented by John Napier in 1614
Slide Rule Invented by William Oughtred in 1622.
Pascaline Invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642
 The Jacquard loom is a mechanical loom, invented
Jacquard Loom by Joseph-Marie Jacquard in
1881.
 A mechanical calculator invented by Thomas de
Arithmometer Colmar in 1820
Difference Engine
and Analytical Invented by Charles Babbage in 1822 and 1834
Engine
First Computer In 1840, Augusta Ada Byron suggests to Babbage
Programmer that he use the binary system
Scheutzian Invented by Per Georg Scheutz in 1843.
Calculation Engine
Tabulating Invented by Herman Hollerith in 1890.
Machine
Harvard Mark 1 Invented by Howard H. Aiken in 1943
 The first programmable computer.
Z1 Created by Konrad Zuse in Germany from 1936 to
1938.
Atanasoff-Berry Invented by Professor John Atanasoff and graduate
student Clifford Berry at Iowa State University
Computer (ABC) between 1939 and 1942.
ENIAC: Electronic Completed in 1946.
Numerical Integrator Developed by John Presper Eckert and John
Mauchly.
and Computer
 Began building UNIVAC I in 1948 and a contract
UNIVAC 1: UNIVersal for the machine was signed by the Census
Automatic Computer1 Bureau on March 31, 1951, and a dedication
ceremony was held in June of that year.
EDVAC: Electronic
Discrete Variable Designed by Von Neumann in 1952.
Automatic Computer
Osborne 1 Released in 1981 by the Osborne Computer Corporation
Electronic Controls Founded in 1949 by John Presper Eckert and John
Company Mauchly.
 The premechanical age is the earliest age of
Premechanical information technology. It can be defined as
the time between 3000B.C. and 1450A.D.

Basic Computing
Periods - Ages
The mechanical age is when we first start to see
Mechanical connections between our current technology
and its ancestors. The mechanical age can be
defined as the time between 1450 and 1840.

Now we are finally getting close to some

Electromechanical technologies that resemble our modern-day
technology. The electromechanical age can be
defined as the time between 1840 and 1940.
The electronic age is what we currently live in. It can
be defined as the time between 1940
Electronic and right now. The ENIAC was the first high-speed,
digital computer capable of being
reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing
problems.
 Generations of
Computer

First Generation: Second Generation: Third Generation: Fourth Generation: Fifth Generation:
1946 to 1958 1959 to 1964 1965 to 1970 1971 to Today Today to future
VACUUM TUBES TRANSISTORS INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MICROPROCESSOR ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE (AI)
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