The History of Computers

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The History of Computers by Mind Map: The History of Computers

1. The Antikythera mechanism is a calculator

1.1. It's 2000 years old

2. The Leibniz Step Reckoner - 1673

2.1. The first four fuction calculator!

3. The Apple Macintosh

3.1. This was the competition of the IBM Personal Computer

4. Through the 1980's to 2000's computers became much more powerful.

4.1. These were still monitors, keyboards and mice!

5. In 2007 born the Smartphone

5.1. This combined a mobile phone with an Internet connected touch screen...

6. The first tablet computer

6.1. In 2010, It was innovative and hugely influential

7. MSDOS - 1980

7.1. An operating systeam for a new PC!

8. Pac-Man - 1980

8.1. An addictive video game!

9. Commadore 64 - 1982

9.1. The Highest selling computer of all time! 64 kilobytes of ram.

10. Mac OS - 1984

10.1. This Operative system brought the graphicla interface!

11. Windows 1.0 - 1985

11.1. It could multitask and had more graphical support!

12. HTML - 1990

12.1. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications.

13. PhotoShop - 1990

13.1. The first photoshop had no layers but had filters, brushes and file types.

14. The WWW - 1991

14.1. The World Wide Web or Web, is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)

15. Intel Pentium - 1993

15.1. It's the sucesor of the intel 486. It started from being the top of the line processor a the time.

16. The Playstation1 - 1994

16.1. The PlayStation is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment

17. Windows 95 - 1995

17.1. It is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of operating systems.

18. Charles Babbage's Difference Engine

18.1. Designed in 1849. 8,000 parts, 5 tons, 11 feet long

19. Curta Calculators

19.1. Popular from the 1940's through to the 1970's. These had up 600 moving parts!

20. Electronic computers

20.1. These were made in the 1940's

21. The Colossus

21.1. This was the world's first programmable, electronic and digital computer!

21.1.1. It was used by British in the Second World War.

22. Computers with microprocessors and microchips in the 1970's.

23. The IBM Personal Computer

23.1. This led the way in the 1980's

23.1.1. It was very sucessful!

24. The Turing Machine

24.1. 1939 -The first computer engineered to combat the encriptions made by Nazi's enigma machine....

25. The Eniac - 1946

25.1. Consists of vaccum tubes. This was big and calculated artilery firing tables.

26. The modem - 1950's

26.1. These were used by US Air Force, but the first commercial ones were made a decade later!

27. The first Hard Drive - 1957

27.1. The RAMAC

27.1.1. Held 5mB of data and was so big!

28. Fortran - 1957

28.1. The first ever programming language.

29. The mouse - 1964

30. RAM - 1968

31. The Arpanet - 1969

31.1. This was the first net!

32. Intel 4004 - 1971

32.1. This was the first commercially available microprocessor

33. The Floppy Disk - 1971

33.1. They became commerically available in this year for IBM.

34. c - The Programmin Language - 1972

34.1. Developed by Dennis Ritchie at the AT&T Bell Labs

35. Pong - 1972

35.1. It was a video game of the first generation of video game consoles

36. The ethernet cable - 1973

36.1. Developed at XEROX PARC. Ethernet data transfer rates have been increased from the original 2.94 mb/s

37. The Altair 8800 - 1975

37.1. The personal computar based on the intel 8008 cpu, ran on the Altair basic with 200 khz to 800 khz.

38. C++ - 1979

38.1. Based on C, this have classes and a tiny bit of syntax change