1970s Science and Technology
Kent ChroniclesFebruary 2013
Russian Firsts
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
Transistor
The Microprocessor
Usability• Punch cards• Command Line• Graphical User Interface
Personal Computing
• Altair 8800• Apple II
The Interwebs
• Arpanet