Computer 50 The University of Manchester Celebrates the Birth of the Modern Computer The Small-Scale Experimental Machine, known as SSEM, or the "Baby", was designed and built at The University of Manchester, and made its first successful run of a program on June 21st 1948. It was the first machine that had all the components now classically regarded as characteristic of the basic computer. Most importantly it was the first computer that could store not only data but any (short!) user program ...

Computer 50 The University of Manchester Celebrates the Birth of the Modern Computer The Small-Scale Experimental Machine, known as SSEM, or the "Baby", was designed and built at The University of Manchester, and made its first successful run of a program on June 21st 1948. It was the first machine that had all the components now classically regarded as characteristic of the basic computer. Most importantly it was the first computer that could store not only data but any (short!) user program ...

A Chronology of Digital Computing Machines (to 1952) Mark Brader For some time Mark Brader has maintained a chronology of digital computing machines. Resulting from a break in his Internet access, Mark is no longer posting updates regularly to Usenet; instead, I am maintaining this copy on the WWW for him. This page is based on his final posting of the chronology, but has undergone subsequent updating and minor editing (note that the document is deliberately kept in plain text, not HTML). Ple ...

The Alan Turing Home Page Maintained by Andrew Hodges, author of Alan Turing: the Enigma. This page is the guide to a large website dedicated to Alan Turing (1912-1954) Who was Alan Turing? Founder of computer science, mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker, strange visionary and a gay man before his time: 1912 (23 June): Birth, Paddington, London 1926-31: Sherborne School 1930: Death of friend Christopher Morcom 1931-34: Undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge Univer ...

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…Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) The Enigma Man and the Machine Alan Mathison Turing was by all accounts a genius. He was educated at King's College in Cambridge, followed by a Ph.D. in logic at Princeton. His contributions to society changed the course of World War II and pioneered the age of computers. He was also a "known homosexual". Alan Turing the Mathematician In 1936 Turing published one of this century's most significant mathematical papers "On Computable Numbers, with an App ...

Welcome to the Analog Computer Museum and History Center The museum is still under construction, but we do have some exhibits open. This museum only exists here on the web. There is no physical museum (yet). Information presented is for educational purposes only. Please address any comments or suggestions to mranalog@attbi.com IMPORTANT NOTICE - I WILL BE AWAY FROM MY COMPUTER FOR SEVERAL MONTHS AS I TRAVEL TO AROUND IN SEARCH OF A JOB. The above email address may also disa ...

BESM-6 Nostalgia Page Click here for Russian. Find all about besm at Wikiverse <-- The photo sent by Mikhail Velikovsky --> This page is supposed to hold all sorts of information about the late (the last original BESM-6 I knew about has been dismantled in 1995) great Soviet mainframe computer BESM-6. For indexing and search purposes I'll mention BESM-6 in Russian (âüóí-6 in KOI-8, ÁÝÑÌ-6 in CP1251). By the way, BESM stands for "Bol'shaya (or Bystrodejstvuyushchaya) Ehlektron ...

Family and Early Childhood First Computing Experience Roots of his Business Career The Birth of Microsoft Bill Gates Links Bibliography Family and Early Childhood On October 28, 1955, shortly after 9:00 p.m., William Henry Gates III was born. He was born into a family with a rich history in business, politics, and community service. His great-grandfather had been a state legislator and mayor, his grandfather was the vice president of a national bank, and ...

Carl Friend's Minicomputer "Museum" - Welcome! - Welcome to Carl Friend's computer "museum". In reality, this is a private collection covering a range of calculating machines from a slide rule to reasonably modern microcomputers and workstations; however, the "crown jewels" of my collection are the minicomputers. What's here: The museum catalogue The narrative The reference shelf The wish list The links list Other miscellany Copyright and & legal notices ...

Carl Friend's Minicomputer "Museum" - Welcome! - Welcome to Carl Friend's computer "museum". In reality, this is a private collection covering a range of calculating machines from slide rules to reasonably modern microcomputers and workstations; however, the "crown jewels" of my collection are the minicomputers. What's here: The museum catalogue The narrative The reference shelf The wish list The links list Other miscellany Copyright and & legal notices ...

Chronology of Personal Computers NOTE: This page has been moved to: http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist/. If your browser does not automatically take you there within a few seconds, click on the link above. Link to Ken P's home page.

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This SiteWeb PHYSICS OF TODAY'S TECH Have you ever wondered how your everyday hardware does its thing? We put seven popular technologies under the microscope. LATEST POSTS Computer Cures Locating missing Outlook contacts, troubleshooting a Wi-Fi network, and repairing scratched CDs: It's all in a day's work for our resident PC doc. Hot Tech for the Summertime We've got 20 on-the-go gadgets that will make any trip to the pool, park, or campground more enjoy ...

Welcome to DA FAMILY TREE When a new generation of computers is developed the older models are transported to Academia (DA Kidz home planet). DA Kidz call these older models "DA Elders". As data is passed on from generation to generation, computer technology advances. DA Kidz have heard many stories about their past from DA Elders and decided it would be fun to trace their roots. They've created a "photo timeline" of 1st events in "The History of Computers" Click t ...

Iowa State University Contact Us | Search Department of Computer Science College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Computer Science Introduction People Research Education Courses Outcomes Facilities Computer Science Jobs Other Info INTRODUCTION Welcome About Computer Science Our Mission Strategic Plan (PDF) Atanasoff-Berry Computer The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the world's first electronic digital computer. It w ...

Iowa State University Contact Us | Search Department of Computer Science College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Computer Science Introduction People Research Education Courses Outcomes Facilities Computer Science Jobs Other Info INTRODUCTION Welcome About Computer Science Our Mission Strategic Plan (PDF) Atanasoff-Berry Computer The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the world's first electronic digital computer. It w ...

ENIAC U. S. Army ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS WITHIN THE ORDNANCE CORPS HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH FROM 1961 Karl Kempf Historical Officer Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD November 1961 PREFACE This historical monograph covers the pioneer efforts and subsequent contributions of the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps in the field of automatic electronic computing systems during the period 1942 through 1961. No comprehensive history of electronic computers within the U.S. Army Ordnanc ...

Computers Computer History Information Age: People, Information and Technology National Museum of American History's Chip Collection From Carbons to Computers: The Changing American Office Computer and Technology Courses from The Smithsonian Associates Beyond the Limits, Flight and the Computer Age Film and Television Printing Technology Printing Presses in the Graphic Arts Collection (PDF) Old and Rare Books, Information for Collectors Science and the Artists' Book Tel ...

A Short History of the Second American Revolution by Dilys Winegrad and Atsushi Akera (1) Today, the northeast corner of the old Moore School building at the University of Pennsylvania houses a bank of advanced computing workstations maintained by the professional staff of the Computing and Educational Technology Service of Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science. There, fifty years ago, in a larger room with drab- colored walls and open rafters, stood the first general purpose elect ...

ENIAC U. S. Army ENIAC: The Army-Sponsored Revolution William T. Moye ARL Historian January 1996 Fifty years ago, the U.S. Army unveiled the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) the world's first operational, general purpose, electronic digital computer, developed at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. Of the scientific developments spurred by World War II, ENIAC ranks as one of the most influential and perv ...

From the U.S. Constitution to IBM The 1890 Census, Hermann Hollerith, and the origins of IBM Introduction Historically there have been two forces which have driven the development of the electonic computer. The first was the need for fast and accurate scientific computation. The second was the need for better "data processing" which coincided with the industrial revolution and the rise of government sponsored social programs. This paper is an exploration of one facet of the second force ...

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History, the History of Computers, and the History of Computers in Education 1780 - Early public schools adopt the teacher/manager model with the teacher as the primary manger of instruction and assessment in a single classroom. 1946 - First vacuum tube-based computers developed; universities help in computer development effort; technology used in war effort. 1951 - Little technology used in schools, primarily TV; baby boom begins with resulting increases in class size; first-generation U ...

United States [change] Terms of use Home Products Services & solutions Support & downloads My account IBM Archives Exhibits Documents Multimedia Helpful links Using the Archives site Terms and conditions IBM Archives Valuable resources on IBM's history Featured exhibit Main exhibit Meet some of the many men and women who were notable builders of IBM's success over the years. History of IBM is a permanent exhibit that provi ...

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John[1] Louis von Neumann Born 28 December 1903, Budapest, Hungary; Died 8 February 1957, Washington DC; Brilliant mathematician, synthesizer, and promoter of the stored program concept, whose logical design of the IAS became the prototype of most of its successors - the von Neumann Architecture. Educ: University of Budapest, 1921; University of Berlin, 1921-23; Chemical Engineering, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule [ETH] (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), 1923-25; Doctorate, Mathem ...

Home | Collection Software | Other Sites Kevan's Little Piece Of The Web... Main Sections... Home Computers Calculators Peripherals Video Games Hand Held Games Other Pages... Can You Help Other Collectors Creating These Pages My Computer Collection For the last few years I have been collecting old computers, calculators, home video games and any other related items. There are a couple of reasons I am doing this. Firstly I started using computers around the s ...

[Back to Horst Zuse] [Back to Horst Zuse-Privat] Konrad Zuse und seine Rechner Folgen Sie mir auf eine kleine Tour zu Konrad Zuses Rechnern. Konrad Zuse and His Computers Follow me on a short guided tour of Konrad Zuse's computers. Konrad Zuse Multimeda Show, Version 2005 Mehr über Konrad Zuse, sein Leben und seine Rechner erfahren Sie in Horst Zuses Konrad Zuse Multimedia Show. New! Konrad Zuse Multimedia Show, Version 2005 You will find much more on Konrad Zuse, his life and his ...

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My Commodores My Commodore "career" on the Internet As you might guess, I wouldn't run this site if I didn't own any Commodore computers. Like most Commodore enthusiasts, I started with the Commodore 64 in 1986, and almost abandoned it when I bought my first PC compatible in 1991. I took the first steps in enhancing my Commodore collection by buying my first VIC-20 in 1991, with some cartridges and tapes. As I joined the Internet in 1992, I found the newsgroup comp.sys.cbm and some pos ...

Milestones in the History of Computers Below is a list of famous people and computers in the history of computing. The list is divided into five categories or generations based on the type of technology used in the construction of the computers or computing devices. 0th Generation - Mechanical & Electro-mechanical Up until the outbreak of the Second World War, computing devices were mechanical or electro-mechanical. The first "known" mechanical calculator (aside from the abacus) was Wilhelm ...

Mind Machine Museum a virtual museum and gallery of vintage computers, vintage calculators, and related artifacts First in collection......the original control console for the first supercomputer, the CDC 6600....date: 1964 manufacturer: Control Data Corporation....serial number: 0002 designer: Seymour Cray....original cost of computer: $6 million Cray Research Supercomputing History Bayview Club photo of CDC 6600 Calculators, computers, and video games are all hi ...

Multics 30 May 2006 Home HistoryPeopleCodeSitesStoriesAbout main siteStratus mirrorBrisbane mirror Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) is a mainframe timesharing operating system begun in 1965 and used until 2000. Multics began as a research project and was an important influence on operating system development. The system became a commercial product sold by Honeywell to education, government, and industry. This web site describes the hardware, software, and people tha ...

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8-Bit Operating Systems This was originally printed in the last issue of Link Magazine, and is reprinted here, with updates, by the author. I finally got off my duff and incorporated all the mail people have been sending me. A few more changes are yet to be made; keep that mail coming. Please do note that, as my consciousness of computer history expands, the title is becoming increasingly inaccurate. For example, I mention nothing of mainframe or minicomputer OSes (mostly due to ignorance) an ...

Blaise Pascal 1623 - 1662 Click the picture above to see eight larger pictures Blaise Pascal was a very influencial French mathematician and philosopher who contributed to many areas of mathematics. He worked on conic sections and projective geometry and in correspondence with Fermat he laid the foundations for the theory of probability. Full MacTutor biography [Version for printing] List of References (53 books/articles) Some Quotations (47) A Poster of Blaise Pascal ...

Past Notable Women of Computing Computing Community: Please help us expand this section. Send TAP your information on historical women in CS by clicking on the "submit" icon below. Submit information Feedback Pioneering Women of Computing Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852) Edith Clarke (1883-1959) Rósa Péter (1905-1977) Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992) Alexandra Illmer Forsythe (1918-1980) Evelyn Boyd Granville Margaret R. Fox Erna Schneider Hoover K ...

John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer An Exhibition in the Department of Special Collections Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania by Asaf Goldschmidt and Atsushi Akera Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania Introduction The year 1996 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the ENIAC computer, the first large-scale general-purpose electronic computer. Built at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical E ...

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Secret of a genius: Drive fast, don't look back by Roger Munns Associated Press "I have always taken the position that there is enough credit for everyone in the invention and development of the electronic computer."--John Atanasoff, early developer of the computer By the winter of 1937, John Atanasoff had come to some general conclusions about a new computing machine, the main one being that it had to separate memory from computation. But he was intellectually stuck on the details, ...

Steve Paul Jobs Born 1955 Los Altos CA; Evangelic bad boy who, with Steve Wozniak, co-founded Apple Computer Corporation and became a multimillionaire before the age of 30. Subsequently started the NeXT Corporation to provide an educational system at a reasonable price, but found that software was a better seller than hardware. Educ: Ungraduated, Physics, literature, and poetry, Reed College, OR; Prof. Exp: Atari Corporation; Apple Corporation; NeXT Corporation. Going to work for Atari afte ...

STEVEN WOZNIAK by Manish Srivastava Steve Wozniak, born 1950. Founder of Apple Computers and engineer invented one of the first computers Apple II. An industry pioneer who has been active in making computer a household word. Education: Bachelor's of Science Computer Science, University of California Berkley,1982. Bachelor's of Engineering Electrical Engineering, University of California Berkley,1982. Professional Experience: Hewlett-Packard , Engineer,.1973-1976. Apple comp ...

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The First Computer Introduction Seldom, if ever, in the history of technology has so long an interval separated the invention of a device and its realisation in hardware as that which elapsed between Charles Babbage's description, in 1837, of the Analytical Engine, a mechanical digital computer which, viewed with the benefit of a century and a half's hindsight, anticipated virtually every aspect of present-day computers. Charles Babbage (1792-1871) was an eminent figure in his day, electe ...

Welcome to The Babbage Pages Babbage, Charles (1791-1871) Reformer militant, mathematician, computer pioneer, economist, mechanical engineer, code-breaker, inventor, society figure, etc. etc. These pages give an introduction to Babbage`s life and work, and current research on Babbage. Biography Family Devonshire Background Friends Ada Lovelace Calculating Engines Political Economy Publications by Babbage Papers on Babbage Babbage at the Science Museum Research sourc ...

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Welcome to the ENIAC Museum Online Celebrating 60 Years of Computing 1946-2006 Happy Birthday, ENIAC! This year marks 60 years since ENIAC launched the world into the Computing Age. Today, it is difficult to imagine how we could manage without the myriad electronic devices that we utilize each day. From our cell phones, PDAs, and cameras to our automobiles, airplanes, medical equipment and devices, electronics is the engine driving us forward. And it was here at the Uni ...

28 May, 2003 ... and then one day you wake up, and things are just not the same anymore... And so it is with the 'Computer Garage'... As of today, I am with great regret announcing the dissolution of the major part of the Computer Garage collection of classic computers and related materials. First; I will detail the method in which this will be done, and then I will detail the reasons and events that have lead up to this decision. If you are seeking the usual "e;Computer Garage"e ...

The Museum of HP Calculators The Museum of HP Calculators displays and describes Hewlett-Packard calculators introduced from 1968 to 1986 plus a few interesting later models. There are also sections on calculating machines and slide rules as well as sections for buying and selling HP calculators, an HP timeline, collecting information and a software library. The Main Exhibit Hall Before HP Calculators (1614-1968) Calculating Machines, Slide Rules, etc.. The First HP Calculators ( ...

A Brief History of the Rice Computer 1959-1971 Adam Thornton The Rice Institute Computer under Construction: Console typewriter, Register light Panel, and Control Unit, October 23, 1959. Photograph courtesy of Sigsby Rusk. Funding for this project has been provided by the Rice Undergraduate Scholars Program. Joel Cyprus was the faculty advisor. Contents Back to my home page. Some of the major figures in the Rice Computer Project, October 23, 1959. Photograph cour ...

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The 20th century is marked by dramatic technology innovation. The time-warp project is an attempt to archive the rapid advance in technology through the decades. Initially we are starting from 1900 to the present. So much has happened since the harnessing of electricity! The project’s goal is to help preserve information about technology and make it accessible for future generations. Please note that at this time our site works fully with Internet Explorer.

IBM Advanced Computing Systems -- Draft Timeline Mark Smotherman. Last updated May 24, 2005 (This reflects my current understanding. I am sure there are errors. I very much appreciate corrections and new material. I also hope the style choices are helpful rather than distracting; there was beginning to be so much important contextual information that the actual ACS-related dates were being swamped.) Project Timeline (includes information about IBM in green italics to help set the con ...

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Vintage Computer Festival The Vintage Computer Festival is an international event that celebrates the history of computing. The mission of the Vintage Computer Festival is to promote the preservation of "obsolete" computers by offering people a chance to experience the technologies, people and stories that embody the remarkable tale of the computer revolution. Through our event and the Vintage Computer Festival Archives—our publicly accessible archive of computer hardware, software, ...

Enter the Atari MuseumAtari Events and Information If you would like to contact the Atari Museum or AHS, please click here. "Atari History Museum" Celebrating more then 30 Years of Fun & Games! Welcome to the Atari History Museum. This site is the culmination of years of research and hard work by enthusiasts with the support of numerous former and current Atari employees and is intended to provide images and information on all areas of Atari. Our mission is the preservation of ...

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