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History of Computers and Programming

Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved.

How we went from this

To this

Early Chinese counting board: Used with permission Robyn Segrest 01/08/2015

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Group DiscussionQuestions:

1. What is the simplest definition of a computer?

2. What defines a modern computer?

3. What is software?

4. What was the first computer?

• If you don’t know make a guess…


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1. Counting boards and abaci

2. 1709 – 1782: Jacques de Vaucanson

3. 1791 – 1871: Charles Babbage

4. 1815 – 1852: Countess of Lovelace (Augusta Ada Byron King)

5. 1910 – 1995: Konrad Zuse

6. 1906 – 1992: Grace Hopper


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7. 1903 – 1957: John von Neumann

8. 1946: ENIAC

9. 1956: Keyboards and RAMACs

10. 1923 – 2005: Jack Kilby

11. 1960: Development of Major Languages

12. 1961: IBM 1301 Disk Storage Unit


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13. 1963: ASCII

14. 1964: Networking, BASIC

15. 1965: Simula

16. 1960s: Space Race

17. 1969: ARPANET

18. 1970: ATM, ARPANET, Shakey


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19. 1972: 8008 CPU, First true video game released

20. 1975: 8800 kit

21. Steve Wozniak 1950 –

22. 1977: PET (Personal Electronic Transistor)

TRS-80

2600 Video Computer System

23. 1979: Worms

24. 1981


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25. 1984 First mouse and GUI-driven computer introduced

26. Bjarne Stroustrup published “The C++ Programming Language”

27. 1990 Scientist at CERN developed HTML First OS that satisfied PC users and provided support for large

graphical applications was released

28. 1991 Finnish student, Linus Torvalds, was dissatisfied with the state of the

computer software industry as they became more secretive and proprietary with their code

29. 1993 Intel released Pentium processors Mosaic web browser introduced


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