Title: Class Outline 9
Course: KVCC CPT126 > Section: Class Outlines

a.     Assignment 3

b.     Evaluating websites contents

a.     Authority

b.     Bias

c.      Relevance

d.     Audience

e.     Links

c.      Plagiarism and Copyright

d.     Cyberbullying

e.     Privacy

History of Computers

f.       Altair – first personal computer

g.     Apple I and II

h.     Competitors

a.     Commodore PET

b.     TRS 80

i.       First Portable Computer – the Osborne

j.       IBM – the creation of the PC

k.      Operating Systems

a.     CLI

i.           Apple DOS

ii.           CP/M

iii.           MS-DOS

b.     GUI

i.           Xerox Alto

l.       Software Applications

a.     BASIC

b.     Office Applications

i.           VISICALC

ii.           Lotus 123

iii.           MS Office

m.   The Internet

n.     Early computers and counting machines

a.     1642 Pascalene – the first mechanical calculator

b.     1842 Jacquard Loom – a loom that used punch cards to produce complex weaves and designs

c.      1834 Babbage Engines – Analytical engine became the ground work for the modern computer

1. Contained the following concepts

1.     The store – like RAM

2.     The mill – like a CPU

3.     Input

4.     Output

1. Ada Lovelace – wrote about Babbage’s works.

d.     1890 Hollerith Tabulating Machine – an application of the jacquard loom into a counting machine. This machine became popular and resulted in the development of IBM.

e.     1936 Z1 – Developed a control unit and separate memory

f.       1939 ABC – First computer to use binary and volatile memory.

g.     1944 Harvard Mark 1 – developed for the Navy for gunnery calculations

h.     1936 Turing Machine – not a real device but a concept that lead to the development of RAM.

i.       1944 ENIAC – again developed to be used in weapon systems is widely considered to be the first digital computer.

j.       1951 UNIVAC – First widely used digital computer and used magnetic tapes instead of punch cards. This is usually considered the first generation of computers.

k.      A year later the transistor was created and this changed everything and led to the second generation of computers.

l.       1958 – Jack Kilby created the integrated circuit which is a small chip full of thousands of transistors and this allowed for the smaller devices and kick started the third generation of computers.

m.   1971 – Intel created the microprocessor which consists of millions of transistors. These CPUs started the 4^th generation of computers.

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