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Charles Babbage
English inventor
1791-1871
taught math at
Cambridge University
invented a viable
mechanical computer
equivalent to modern
digital computers
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Babbage’s first computer
difference engine
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Babbage’s second computer
Analytical engine
general-purpose
used binary system
punched cards as input
branch on result of
previous instruction
Ada Lovelace (first
programmer)
machined parts not
accurate enough
never quite completed
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invention of the light bulb, 1878
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Edison’s legacy
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invention of the diode (late 1800’s)
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the switching vacuum tube, 1906
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on/off switches in digital computers
earliest:
electromechanical relays
solenoid with mechanical contact points
physical switch closes when electricity animates magnet
1940’s:
vacuum tubes
no physical contacts to break or get dirty
became available in early 1900’s
mainly used in radios at first
1950’s to present
transistors
invented at Bell Labs in 1948
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley
Nobel prize, 1956
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electromechanical relay
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photo of an electromechanical relay
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transistor evolution
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the integrated circuit (IC)
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IC’s are fabricated many at a time
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functional view of transistor contents
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a TTL chip
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Moore’s law
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transistors - building blocks of computers
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Electrical Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), 1940’s
an early computer
developed at UPenn
Size: 30’ x 50’ room
18,000 vacuum tubes
1500 relays
weighed 30 tons
designers
John Mauchly
J. Presper Eckert
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Intel 8088 microprocessor (single chip)
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Moore’s Law example
DEC
LSI-11,
Early 1980’s
DEC
PDP-11,
mid 1970’s
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