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 History_of_computing_hardware
Computing hardware has been an essential component of the process of calculation and data storage since it became useful for numerical values to be processed and shared.
The history of computing article is a related overview and treats methods intended for pen and paper, with or without the aid of tables.
The US-built ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), often called the first electronic general-purpose computer, publicly validated the use of electronics for large-scale computing.
www.comicscomics.com /search.php?title=History_of_computing_hardware   (5467 words)

  
 Timeline of computing 750 BC-1949 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article presents a detailed timeline of events in the history of computing from 750 BC until 1949.
This is one of the first binary computers, although at this stage it was only a demonstration machine improvements continued leading to the 'complex number calculator' of January 1940.
The Manchester Mark I final specification is completed; this machine notably being the first computer to use the equivalent of base/index registers, a feature not entering common computer architecture until the second generation around 1955.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_computing_750_BC-1949   (4001 words)

  
 ComPundit: ComPundit
Triumph of the Nerds is a PBS-Timeline for computing.
A chronological account of computing with a time-line is found at the site of The IEEE Computer Society, the world's oldest and largest professional association of people in computing.
The Birth of Modern Computing and Programming Ideas is found at the History of Programming Languages.
compundit.blogspot.com /2003/10/compundit.html   (774 words)

  
 Computer Timeline : Consumer Electronics and Computers
Computing timelines: 500 BC-1949, 1950-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-present 1950...
Computing timelines: 500 BC-1949, 1950-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-present 1980...
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www.vogue3d.com /575-Computer-Timeline.html   (1177 words)

  
 Computer Timeline
500: BC: Bead and wire abacus originates in Egypt.
1949: EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) supports the first tests of magnetic disks.
1946: Binac (Binary Automatic Computer), the first computer to operate in real time, is completed in 1949.
www.berkeleyprep.org /webhouse/bh/html/timeline.htm   (542 words)

  
 timeline_of_computing.html
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 Timeline
Grace Murray Hooper pulls a dead bug from a broken computer relay on the Mark II computer at Harvard University.
Continual cleaning of the relays is referred to as "debugging" the computer.
She later glued the bug into a logbook of the computer.
nuhsd.k12.ca.us /brhs/faculty/Stephan/history/Timeline.html   (1290 words)

  
 History of Computer Science
In the first example of remote computing, Stibitz astounded the attendees by allowing them to pose problems, which were entered on the teleprinter and, within a short time, the teleprinter presented the answers generated by the computer.
The all - purpose computer memory became the assembly place in which all parts of a long computation were kept, worked on piece by piece, and put together to form the final results.
In 1937, while a graduate student, Turing wrote his paper "On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungs problem." One of the premises of Turing's paper was that some classes of mathematical problems do not lend themselves to algorithmic representations and are not amenable to solution by automatic computers.
www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/.cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/fgandon/lecture/uk1999/history   (7344 words)

  
 Kerlins.net > Bobbi's Research
Where a computer like the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1 1/2 tons.
The switching units in computers which up until this time have been mechanical relays, are starting to be replaced with vacuum tubes; these tubes have their own set of problems related to size and heat generation (1)
July 19: Apple Computer Inc., profits are up 71%, rising to $91.3 million in the latest quarter because of strong demand for the Macintosh line and strong foreign sales.
kerlins.net /bobbi/research/myresearch/timeline.html   (5360 words)

  
 500
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Timeline of quantum mechanics, molecular physics, atomic physics, nuclear physics, and particle physics
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 Global telecommunications, computing & internet timeline
Apple Computer introduced its new operating system OS-X, Microsoft has its court-ordered breakup overturned settling the antitrust case with the Department of Justice.
The first pocket computers arrive and British engineers bring the first home computer, the Sinclair ZX 80 to market.
Napster keeps finding itself embroiled in litigation and is eventually forced to suspend service; it comes back later in the year as a subscription service, Code Red worm and Sircam virus infiltrate thousands of web servers and email accounts in July causing a spike in internet bandwidth usage and security breaches.
www.wordworx.co.nz /Globaltimeline.htm   (3910 words)

  
 1949
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Ley de expropiación por causa de utilidad pública o social (1949) Ley promulgada el 28 de enero de 1949.
Randy's 1949 Chevy Kustom Project Pictures and information on the restoration and customizing of Randy's 1949 Chevy Fleetline.
www.purpleuniverse.com /free_associate-1949.html   (127 words)

  
 dates
Taken from TIMELINE on FREE-NET, The Freedom Shrine, Historical Timeline 30 Nov 1991.
wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk /pub/dates   (7046 words)

  
 User:AxelBoldt
I teach mathematics at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota and am on leave until fall 2004.
I'm interested in molecular biology, theoretical computer science, physics, astronomy, free software, (political) philosophy and chess.
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 Inch Computer Monitor : Computer Devices
Computing timelines: 500 BC-1949, 1950-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-present 1980...
Timeline of computing 1980-1989 -     Home Encylopedia Directory eShowcase Sitemap Privacy Contact Us Enyclopedia Home
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 Compact Flash Type 1 : Computer Memory Cards
Computing timelines: 500 BC-1949, 1950-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-present 1950...
See live article   Timeline of computing 1950-1979 This article presents a detailed timeline of events in the history of computing from 1950 to 1979.
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 Timeline of computing 750 BC-1949 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article presents a detailed timeline of events in the history of computing from 750 BC until 1949.
500 B.C. Use of zero by mathematicians in India changed simple arithmetic at some time around this date.
750 B.C. The abacus was first used by the Babylonians as an aid to simple arithmetic at some time around this date.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_computing_500_BC-1949   (4001 words)

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