Hardware A to Z
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Class Session 2
Historical Overview of Computers (beginning to 1920)
The below list for the CM128 course provides a detailed illustration of Computer History detailed the highlights of the personal computer. The latter portion of this document has detailed information about the types of Operating Systems and how the evolution of events shaped the overall concept of the computer today.
A Chronology of Computer History:
3000 BC: Dust abacus is invented, probably in Babylonia.
1800 BC: Babylonian mathematician develops algorithms to resolve numerical problems.
500 BC: Bead and wire abacus originates in Egypt.
200 AD: Saun-pan computing tray is used in China; soroban computing tray used in Japan.
1000: Gerbert of Aurillac or Pope Sylvester II devises a more efficient abacus.
1617: Scottish inventor John Napier uses bones to demonstrate division by subtraction and multiplication by addition.
1622: William Oughtred develops the slide rule in England.
1624: Wilhelm Schickard builds first four-function calculator-clock at the University of Heidelberg...