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Manual |
Mechanical |
Elec-Mech |
E-M & VT |
vt |
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Transistor |
IC |
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Prehist-1600 |
1600-1800 |
1800-1890 |
1890-1945 |
1935-1947 |
1947-1955 |
1952-1958 |
1958-1968 |
1965- |
1971- Micros |
1977- |
1982 |
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1992 |
1995 |
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to mark era |
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Hollerith |
Find the computer |
The first dozen |
Industry starts |
Industry restarts |
Integrated Circuits |
Dawn of microP |
1st personal micros |
IBM PC Standard |
Dist'd Comp. & Ethernet; SUN |
RISC. Micros cross over Bipolar |
WWW |
Palm |
| It's all
about record keeping and commerce |
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Leo, UNIVAC IBM 701 |
Snowhite & 7 dwarfs+: burroughs,
Honeywell, RCA |
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| Industy
starts: Leo, Univac, … |
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| Aiding
the bookeeper: general register, |
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systems… |
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| Financial
ttansactions… that's where the money is MICR, TP benchmarks |
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erma '57 |
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| Capturing
and search the web; Apache |
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| It's
about numbers, simulation, science
& insight |
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beginning: ERA, 701 |
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Cray era: the big FORTRAN machine |
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| Scalables:
Computing by the slice. Fills any budget |
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| Laboratory
instrumentation is here or is a Mini? |
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| It's
only about Me |
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| Working
& workstations before the PC took all |
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Personal: The day I bought my own computer |
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| Playing,
learning, entertaining |
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| Put it
your pocket |
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| Control:
Pay no attention to the computer behind the x |
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mini…including science, machine etc. |
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micro (microP, microC, multi-core, etc) |
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about communication & convergence |
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goes digital e.g. No. 5 ESS & Datacom… |
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| ARPA
net, Internet, and WWW |
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| Video |
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Generations |
-300.16 |
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Manual |
1600.1800 |
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Mechanical |
1800.1890 |
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Electro-Mechanical |
1890.1930 |
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Electronic (Vacuum Tubes) |
1930.1960 |
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| 1st
Generation (Vacuum Tubes) |
1950.1959 |
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| 2nd
Generation (Discrete Transistor Circuitry) |
1960.1968 |
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| 3rd
Generation ( IC's SSI-MSI) & Minis |
1969.1977 |
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| 4th
Generation processor on a chip (LSI-VLSI, |
1971. |
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Mainframes |
1960.2000 |
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Minicomputers |
1965.1990 |
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| Class:
PCs & Networked Workstations |
1978. |
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| Class:
Scalables using Killer Micros (take
all - PCs, minis, mainframes, supers) |
1990. |
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WWW |
1992. |
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| Class:
Palm Computing |
1995. |
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| Class:
SFF aka CPSD (small form factor, cell phone sized devices) phone, player,
camera, browser, |
2000 |
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