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Palo Alto Packet Switching
1,765 wordsKonrad Duke, a German engineer, completes the first general purpose programmable calculator in 1941. He pioneers the use of binary math and boolean logic in electronic Colossus, a British computer used for code-breaking, is operational by December of 1943. ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer, is developed by the Ballistics Research Laboratory in Maryland to assist in the preparation of firing tables for artillery. It is built at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore ...
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Million Copies Operating System
859 wordsSkinny, shy and awkward, teenaged Bill Gates seemed an unlikely successor to his overachieving parents. His father, powerfully built and 6 ' 6 '' tall, was a prominent Seattle attorney, and his mother served on charitable boards and ran the United Way. While he showed enormous talent for math and logic, young Bill, a middle child, was no one's idea of a natural leader, let alone a future billionaire who would reinvent American business. Born in 1955, Gates attended public elementary school, and ...
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Large Scale Integration Keeping Track
1,240 words... verie's rapidly found their way into new models of digital computers. Memory storage capacities increased 800 % in commercially available machines by the early 1960 s and speeds increased by an equally large margin. These machines were very expensive to purchase or to rent and were especially expensive to operate because of the cost of hiring programmers to perform the complex operations the computers ran. Such computers were typically found in large computer centers-operated by industry, go...
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Personal Computer Altair 8800
536 wordsThe Analytical and Difference Engines (1835 - 1869): The English mathematician Charles Babbage (1792 - 1871) never got to build his invention, but his design had an uncanny resemblance to the modern computer. Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, wrote eloquently about the device and was history's first programmer. The ABC (Atanasoff Berry Computer) (1938): John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry designed the first electronic digital computer at Iowa State, and urged the university to patent their desi...
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Billions Of Dollars Bill Gates
589 wordsBill Gates was born on October 28 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He grew up as a poor kid. He went to a public elementary school then at 12 he went to a private lakeside school. At 13 he wrote his first computer program. He and his friend Paul Allen wrote a scheduling program for the school. Still in high school, Gates and Allen founded a company called Traf-O-Data, which analyzed city traffic data. Then he later went to Harvard University to become a lawyer like his father and dropped out junior ...
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Microsoft Windows Bill Gates
1,192 words-- Bill Gates (The richest man in the world) Bibliography William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. Microsoft had revenues of US$ 32. 19 billion for the fiscal year ending June 2002, and employs more than 50, 000 people in 72 countries and regions. Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father, William H. G...
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Personal Computers Apple Ii
627 wordsComputers are an essential part of each and every day in our modern life. They entertain, educate, assist in daily tasks and in many instances, fascinate us with their capabilities. They can be found almost everywhere. Computers are the basis for PDAs, which are used by many busy people to schedule their work and life appointments; air traffic control systems, that direct airplanes in their movement; satellites, that keep us in communication with the rest of the world; information systems which ...
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Mac Os Operating Systems
2,423 wordsEvolution of the PC Operating System Outline: 1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Some facts about the history of computer and operating systems: software evolution depending on hardware development: 3. 1 Batch operating systems; 3. 2 time-shared operating systems; 3. 3 Personal computers of the middle 70 s: CP/M (Control Program/Microcomputer). and DOS operating systems; 3. 4 Developing personal computers with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) makes possible introducing GUI operating systems: 3. 4. 1...
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One Of The Biggest Hewlett Packard
1,608 wordsThe Apple Case Analysis The start of the era of personal computers started a very long time ago. It started in 1971 by Dr. Ted Hoff has assembled all of the elements of a computer microprocessor on one silicon chip, which in size was approximately as big as one square inch. This microprocessor was called Intel 4004 this creation was the first microprocessor available commercially. (1) These chips were used in the production of calculators, which have opened the door to the production of the comp...
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Sir Charles Miles South
1,263 wordsOur Most Renowned Aviator Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, known to the world as Smithy remains one of the most celebrated pilots of international aviation's golden age. For seven years, from 1928 to his death in 1935, he was the most revered public hero in Australia. His epic and dangerous oceanic flights, through destructive weather in fragile aeroplanes, were followed on radio around the world like the moon missions of 40 years later. At the end of his great pioneer journeys crowds of 200,...
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Punched Card Machines Large Scale Integration
2,747 wordsOnly once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the U. S. and one out of every two households (Hall, 156). This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for 2000 years. However, only in the las...
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United States Of America Colleges And Universities
2,179 wordsEssay On Individuals Who Have Contributed Significantly Essay On Individuals Who Have Contributed Significantly To The Development Of Computing As We Know It Essay on individuals who have contributed significantly to the development of computing as we know it Computing, as we know it has developed greatly and rapidly in the last fifty years or so. Many individuals can be said to have contributed to the computer revolution this century, some more than significantly than others. This is assignment...
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Punched Card Machines Large Scale Integration
2,850 wordsHISTORY History Of Computers HISTORY HISTORY OF COMPUTERS IN THE U. S. Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such devices changed the way we manage, work, and live. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the United States. This incredible invention that I use all day, 5 days of a week is the computer. I have been using a computer for well over seven years and it has changed how I communicate and the b...
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Punched Card Machines Large Scale Integration
2,697 wordsOnly once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such devices changed the way we manage, work, and live. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the United States. This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for 2000 years. However, only in the last 40 years has the computer changed American management to its greate...
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2,548 wordsHistory of the Computer Industry in America America and the Computer Industry Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the U. S. and one out of every two households (Hall, 156). This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-centur...
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Punched Card Machines Large Scale Integration
3,397 wordsThe Computer and Its Histor CONTENTS I. Introduction? ? ... ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? . 4 II. Early Tools and Their Inventory? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ... 4 III. Electro-Mechanical and Electrical Calculating Machines? ? ? ? ? ? ? 6 IV. Random Access Memory (RAM) Computers Come into the Lime-Light? ... 8 V. Change was Good? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 9 VI. The Computer Gets Cheap, Even the Average Joe Can Buy One? 10 VII. Conclusion? ? ? ? ? ? ? ...
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Fell In Love Hewlett Packard
1,647 wordsSteve Wozniak's childhood had a big effect on his revolutionary developments in the computer world. Wozniak grew up in Sunnyvale California. His family lived in a development built for Lockheed engineers like his father. (Rose, 26) As a teenager he w During his high school years, Wozniak was a prankster and was once suspended for placing a metronome disguised as a bomb in a friends locker. (Brodhagen, 1) The more serious side of Wozniak loved electronics and spent one day a week working at Sylva...
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