1970s Science and Technology

Kent ChroniclesFebruary 2013

Russian Firsts

The Space Race

• The Aim

NASA Missions of the 1970s

• Apollo

• Skylab

• Apollo-Soyuz

• The Shuttle

Apollo Pictures

Skylab

Apollo-Soyuz (Or Soyuz-Apollo)

The Shuttle

Why “Computers?”• The machine was designed to replace the

people who made the mathematical tables that assisted many occupations in society, for example artillery tables.

Vaccum Tubes

Computers in the 1960s (and a little before)

• Univac• IBM

• Business machines

Problems with the mainframes

Transistor

The Microprocessor

Usability• Punch cards• Command Line• Graphical User Interface

Personal Computing

• Altair 8800• Apple II

The Interwebs

• Arpanet