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Technology in Action

Technology in Focus:

The History of the PC

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Altair 8800

• The first microcomputer• Sold as a kit• Switches for input• Lights for output• Gates and Allen create a

compiler for Basic.• 4,000 orders for the

machine


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Apple I and Apple II

• Apple I built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976, followed by Apple II in 1977

• Used Motorola processor

• First fully contained microcomputer

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Early Competitors

• Commodore PET 2001

• Radio Shack’s TRS-80

• The Osborne


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IBM PC• IBM enters small-

computer market in 1981• Uses open architecture• Purchases operating

system from Microsoft


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Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC)

• Revolutionized software industry

• Easily learned by beginners• Key PC language • Used by Gates and Allen to

write the program for Altair• Led to the creation of

Microsoft


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Advent of Operating Systems• Steve Wozniak invented the floppy

drive • Disk Operating System (DOS):

Operating system that controlled the first Apples

• Control Program for Microcomputers (CP/M): First operating system for Intel-based PCs


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Advent of Operating Systems• MS-DOS

– Operating system for IBM PCs– Based on an operating system called

Quick and Dirty Operating System (QDOS)

– Created by Bill Gates and Paul Allen– All PCs using the Intel chip used

MS-DOS


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Software Application Explosion

• Electronic spreadsheets– VisiCalc– Lotus 1-2-3 – Microsoft Excel

• Word processing– WordStar– Word for MS-DOS– WordPerfect

Bricklin and Frankston

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Graphical User Interface (GUI)

• Xerox – Alto: 1972– Introduced the What

You See Is What You Get principle (WYSIWYG)

• Apple– Lisa: 1983– Macintosh: 1984

Xerox Alto


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The Internet Boom

• Mosaic: 1993• Netscape: 1994• Internet Explorer: 1995


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Early Computer History

• Pascalene, 1624– The first accurate mechanical

calculator– Created by Blaise Pascal– Used to add, subtract, multiply,

and divide• Jacquard Loom, 1820

– Created by Joseph Jacquard– A machine that automated the

weaving of complex patterns– Used holes punched in cards

to automate the process


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• Hollerith Tabulating Machine, 1890– Created by Herman Hollerith– Used punch cards to tabulate census data– Hollerith started the Tabulating Machine

Company, which later became IBM

• Analytical Engine, 1834– Created by Charles Babbage,

the father of computing– The first automatic calculator– Included components similar to

those found in today's computers


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Early Computer History• Z1, 1936

– Created by Konrad Zuse– A mechanical calculator– Included a control unit and

memory functions• Atanasoff-Berry

Computer, 1939– Created by John Atanasoff

and Clifford Berry– The first electrically

powered digital computer– Used vacuum tubes to

store data– First computer to use the

binary system

Atansoff-Berry Computer


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Early Computer History • Harvard Mark I, 1944

– Created by Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper

– A computer used by the U.S. Navy for ballistics calculations

– Hopper’s contribution to computing was

• Invention of the compiler• Coining the term “computer bug”

• Turing Machine, 1936– Created by Alan Turing– Hypothetical model; defined a

mechanical procedure or algorithm

– Concept of an infinite tape that could read, write, and erase was precursor to today’s RAM

1st use of “computer bug”


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• ENIAC, 1944– Created by John W.

Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert

– First successful high-speed electronic digital computer

• UNIVAC, 1951– First commercially

successful electronic digital computer

– Used magnetic tapeENIAC


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Early Computer History• Transistors, 1945

– Invented at Bell Laboratories– Replaced vacuum tubes

• Integrated circuits, 1958– Invented by Jack Kilby of Texas

Instruments– Small chip containing thousands

of transistors– Enabled computers to become

smaller and lighter


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• Microprocessor chip, 1971– Created by Intel Corporation– Small chip containing millions of transistors– Functions as the central processing unit (CPU)


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Transistors and Beyond

• First-generation computers (1946–1958)– ENIAC and UNIVAC– Used vacuum tubes to store data

• Second-generation computers (1959–1964)– Used transistors to store data

• Third-generation computers (1965–1970)– Used integrated circuits

• Fourth-generation computers (1971–today)– Use a microprocessor chip


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