The History Of First Computer

The history of computer dates back a lot longer than the 1900s, in fact computers have been around for over 5000 years.

The First computers?

Charles Babbage's. (1792-1871), was ahead of his time, and using the punch card idea he developed the first computing devices that would be used for scientific purposes. He invented the Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, which he begun in 1823 but never completed. Later he started work on the Analytical Engine, it was designed in 1842.

Babbage was also credited with inventing computing concepts such as conditional branches, iterative loops and index variables.

During those trouble times, computers evolved at a rapid rate.

As it turned out the machine was only ready in 1945, but the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC, proved to be a turning point in computer history.

Eckert and Mauchly later developed what was arguably the first commercially successful computer, the UNIVAC.

The first programs were written out in machine code.

Late 1950 saw the end of valve driven computers. Transistor based computers were used because they were smaller, cheaper, faster and a lot more reliable.

Corporations, rather than inventors, were now producing the new computers.

Some of the better known ones are:

• ·         TRADIC at Bell Laboratories in 1954,

• ·         TX-0 at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory

• ·         IBM 704 and its successors, the 709 and 7094. The latter introduced I/O processors for better  throughput between I/O devices and main memory

• ·         First super computers, The Livermore Atomic Research Computer (LARC) and the IBM 7030 (aka Stretch)

• ·         The Texas Instrument Advanced Scientific Computer (TI-ASC)

Now the basis of computers was in place, with transistors the computers were faster and with stored program architecture you could use the computer for almost anything.

Martin Richards of Cambridge developed a subset of CPL called BCPL (Basic Computer Programming Language, 1967).

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Computer systems have come a long way since then.

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the human beings, there was a time where computers did not exist. Knowing the history of computers and how much progression has been made can help you understand just how complicated and innovative the creation of computers really is.

Throughout the development of the computer, many people have added their creations to the list required to make a computer work. Some of the inventions have been different types of computers, and some of them were parts required to allow computers to be developed further.

Perhaps the most significant date in the history of computers is the year 1936. It was in this year that the first "computer" was developed. It was created by Conrad Zuse and dubbed the Z1 Computer.

It wasn't until 1942 that any business saw profit and opportunity in computers. This first company was called ABC computers, owned and operated by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry. Two years later, the Harvard Mark I computer was developed, furthering the science of computing.

It was a massive machine, and started the revolution to build smaller and faster computers.

The age of computers was forever altered by the introduction of International Business Machines, or IBM, into the computing industry in 1953. 

A Programming Language Evolves

 FORTRAN was written so that more people could begin to program computers easily.

During 1958, one of the most important breakthroughs in computer history occurred, the creation of the integrated circuit. This device, also known as the chip, is one of the base requirements for modern computer systems. On every motherboard and card within a computer system, are many chips that contain information on what the boards and cards do. 

For many computer users now, games are a vital part of the computing experience.

The first networking card was created in 1973, allowing data transfer between connected computers.

The next three years were very important for computers. While expensive, these machines started the trend for computers within common households.

One of the most major breakthroughs’ in computer software occurred in 1978 with the release of the VisiCalc Spreadsheet program. 

1979 was perhaps one of the most important years for the home computer user. This drastically altered the usefulness of computers for the everyday user.

Computers saw yet another vital change during the year of 1983. The Apple Lisa computer was the first with a graphical user interface, or a GUI. 

Without the initial first steps of computer history, none of this would have been possible.

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