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The History of Computers

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The History of Computers. History of computing. calculating devices have been around for millennia (e.g., abacus ~3,000 B.C.) modern "computing technology" traces its roots to the 16-17th centuries

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History of computing • calculating devices have been around for millennia (e.g., abacus ~3,000 B.C.) • modern "computing technology" traces its roots to the 16-17th centuries • as part of the "Scientific Revolution", people like Kepler, Galileo, and Newton viewed the natural world as mechanistic and understandable • this led to technological advances & innovation • from simple mechanical calculating devices to powerful modern computers, computing technology has evolved through technological breakthroughs

Generation 0: Mechanical Computers 1642 – Pascal built a mechanical calculating machine • used mechanical gears, a hand-crank, dials and knobs • other similar machines followed • 1805 – the first programmable device was Jacquard's loom • the loom wove tapestries with elaborate, programmable patterns • a pattern was represented by metal punch-cards, fed into the loom • using the loom, it became possible to mass-produce tapestries, and even reprogram it to produce different patterns simply by changing the cards • mid 1800's – Babbage designed his "analytical engine" • its design expanded upon mechanical calculators, but was programmable via punch-cards (similar to Jacquard's loom) • Babbage's vision described the general layout of modern computers • he never completed a functional machine – his design was beyond the technology of the day

Generation 0 (cont.) 1890 – Hollerith invented tabulating machine • designed for tabulating 1890 U.S. Census data • similar to Jacquard's loom and Babbage's analytical engine, it stored data on punch-cards, and could sort and tabulate using electrical pins • using Hollerith's machine, census data was tabulated in 6 weeks (vs. 7 years for the 1880 census) • Hollerith's company would become IBM • 1930's – several engineers independently built "computers" using electromagnetic relays • an electromagnetic relay is physical switch, which can be opened/closed via electrical current • Zuse (Nazi Germany) – his machines were destroyed in WWII • Atanasoff (Iowa State) – built a partially-working machine with his grad student • Stibitz (Bell Labs) – built the MARK I computer that followed the designs of Babbage • limited capabilities by modern standards: could store only 72 numbers, required 1/10 sec to add, 6 sec to multiply • still, 100 times faster than previous technology

Generation 1: Vacuum Tubes mid 1940's – vacuum tubes replaced relays • a vacuum tube is a light bulb containing a partial vacuum to speed electron flow • vacuum tubes could control the flow of electricity faster than relays since they had no moving parts • invented by Lee de Forest in 1906 • 1940's – hybrid computers using vacuum tubes and relays were built COLOSSUS (1943) • first "electronic computer", built by the British govt. (based on designs by Alan Turing) • used to decode Nazi communications during the war • the computer was top-secret, so did not influence other researchers ENIAC (1946) • first publicly-acknowledged "electronic computer", built by Eckert & Mauchly (UPenn) • contained 18,000 vacuum tubes and 1,500 relays • weighed 30 tons, consumed 140 kwatts

Generation 1 (cont.) COLOSSUS and ENIAC were not general purpose computers • could enter input using dials & knobs, paper tape • but to perform a different computation, needed to reconfigure • von Neumann popularized the idea of a "stored program" computer • Memory stores both data and programs • Central Processing Unit (CPU) executes by loading program instructions from memory and executing them in sequence • Input/Output devices allow for interaction with the user virtually all modern machines follow this von Neumann Architecture (note: same basic design as Babbage) programming was still difficult and tedious • each machine had its own machine language, 0's & 1's corresponding to the settings of physical components • in 1950's, assembly languages replaced 0's & 1's with mnemonic names e.g., ADD instead of 00101110

Generation 2: Transistors mid 1950's – transistors began to replace tubes • a transistor is a piece of silicon whose conductivity can be turned on and off using an electric current • they performed the same switching function of vacuum tubes, but were smaller, faster, more reliable, and cheaper to mass produce • invented by Bardeen, Brattain, & Shockley in 1948 (earning them the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics) some historians claim the transistor was the most important invention of the 20th century • computers became commercial as cost dropped high-level languages were designed to make programming more natural • FORTRAN (1957, Backus at IBM) • LISP (1959, McCarthy at MIT) • BASIC (1959, Kemeny at Dartmouth) • COBOL (1960, Murray-Hopper at DOD) the computer industry grew as businesses could afford to buy and use computers Eckert-Mauchly (1951), DEC (1957) IBM became market force in 1960's

Generation 3: Integrated Circuits mid 1960's - integrated circuits (IC) were produced • Noyce and Kilby independently developed techniques for packaging transistors and circuitry on a silicon chip (Kilby won the 2000 Nobel Prize in physics) • this advance was made possible by miniaturization & improved manufacturing • allowed for mass-producing useful circuitry 1971 – Intel marketed the first microprocessor, the 4004, a chip with all the circuitry for a calculator • 1960's saw the rise of Operating Systems • recall: an operating system is a collection of programs that manage peripheral devices and other resources • in the 60's, operating systems enabled time-sharing, where users share a computer by swapping jobs in and out • as computers became affordable to small businesses, specialized programming languages were developed Pascal (1971, Wirth), C (1972, Ritche)

Generation 4: VLSI late 1970's - Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) • by the late 1970's, manufacturing advances allowed placing hundreds of thousands of transistors w/ circuitry on a chip • this "very large scale integration" resulted in mass-produced microprocessors and other useful IC's • since computers could be constructed by simply connecting powerful IC's and peripheral devices, they were easier to make and more affordable

Generation 4: VLSI (cont.) • with VLSI came the rise of personal computing • 1975 - Bill Gates & Paul Allen founded Microsoft Gates wrote a BASIC interpreter for the first PC (Altair) • 1977 - Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs founded Apple went from Jobs' garage to $120 million in sales by 1980 • 1980 - IBM introduced PC Microsoft licensed the DOS operating system to IBM • 1984 - Apple countered with Macintosh introduced the modern GUI-based OS (which was mostly developed at Xerox) • 1985 - Microsoft countered with Windows 1980's - object-oriented programming began • represented a new approach to program design which views a program as a collection of interacting software objects that model real-world entities • Smalltalk (Kay, 1980), C++ (Stroustrup, 1985), Java (Sun, 1995)

Generation 5: Parallelism/Networks the latest generation of computers is still hotly debated • no new switching technologies, but changes in usage have occurred high-end machines (e.g. Web servers) can have multiple CPU's • in 1997, highly parallel Deep Blue beat Kasparov in a chess match • in 2003, successor Deep Junior played Kasparov to a draw • most computers today are networked • the Internet traces its roots to the 1969 ARPANet mainly used by govt. & universities until late 80's/early 90's • the Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 designed to allow physics researchers to share data and documents not popular until 1993 when Marc Andreessen developed a graphical browser (Mosaic) Andreessen would go on to found Netscape, and Internet Explorer soon followed stats from NetCraft & Internet Software Consortium

From Circuits to Microchips • initially, circuits were built by wiring together individual transistors • this did not lend itself to mass production • it also meant that even simple circuits consisting of tens or hundreds of transistors were quite large (to allow space for human hands) • in 1958, two researchers (Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce) independently developed techniques that allowed for the mass-production of circuitry • circuitry (transistors + connections) is layered onto a single wafer of silicon, known as a microchip • since every component is integrated onto the same microchip, these circuits became known asintegrated circuits

Manufacturing ICs • the production of integrated circuits is one of the most complex engineering processes in the world • transistors on chips can be as small as .13 microns (roughly 1/750th the width of human hair) • since a hair or dust particle can damage circuitry during manufacture, chips are created in climate-controlled "clean rooms"

Manufacturing ICs • to produce the incredibly small and precise circuitry on microchips, manufacturers use light-sensitive chemicals • initially, the silicon chip is covered with a semiconductor material, then coated with a layer of photoresist (a chemical sensitive to UV light) • transistors are then printed onto a mask (transparent surface on which an opaque coating has been applied to form patterns) • UV light is filtered through the mask, passing through the transparent portions and striking the surface of the chip in the specified pattern • the photoresist that is exposed to the UV light reacts, hardening the layer of the semiconductor below it • the photoresist that was not exposed and the soft layer of semiconductor below are etched away, leaving only the desired pattern of semiconductor material on the surface of the chip • the process can be repeated 20-30 times depositing multiple layers

Packaging Microchips • since a silicon chip is fragile, the chip is encased in plastic for protection • metal pins are inserted on both sides of the packaging, facilitating easy connections to other microchips • impact of the microchip • lower cost due to mass production • faster operation speed due to the close proximity of circuits on chips • simpler design/construction of computers using prepackaged components • Moore’s Law describes the remarkable evolution of manufacturing technology • Moore noted that the number of transistors that can fit on a microchip doubles every 12 to 18 months • this pattern has held true for the past 30 years • industry analysts predict that it will continue to hold for the near future

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• Pre-History
• Electronics
• The abacus is believed to have been invented in 4th century B.C.
• The Antikythera mechanism, a device used for registering and predicting the motion of the stars and planets, is dated to 1st century B.C.
• Arabic numerals were introduced in Europe in the 8th and 9th century A.D. and was used until the 17th century.
• John Napier of Scotland invents logs in 1614 to allow multiplication and division to be converted to addition and subtraction.
• Wilhelm Schickard, a professor at the University of Tubingen, Germany builds a mechanical calculator in 1623 with a 6-digit capacity. The machine worked, but it never makes it beyond the prototype stage.
• Leonardo Da Vinci is now given credit for building the first mechanical calculator around 1500. Evidence of Da Vincis machine was not found until papers were discovered in 1967.
• Blaise Pascal builds a mechanical calculator in 1642 with an 8-digit capacity.
• Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents an automatic loom controlled by punch-cards in the early 1800s.
• Charles Babbage designs a Difference Engine in 1820 or 1821 with a massive calculator designed to print astronomical tables. The British government cancelled the project in 1842 Babbage then conceives the Analytical Engine, a mechanical computer that can solve any mathematical problem and uses punch-cards.
• Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace and daughter of English poet Lord Byron, worked with Babbage and created a program for the Analytical Engine. Ada is now credited as being the 1st computer programmer.
• Samuel Morse invents the Electric Telegraph in 1837.
• George Boole invents Boolean Algebra in the late 1840s. Boolean Algebra was destined to remain largely unknown and unused for the better part of a century, until a young student called Claude E. Shannon recognized its relevance to electronics design.
• In 1857, only twenty years after the invention of the telegraph, Sir Charles Wheatstone (the inventor of the accordian) introduced the first application of paper tapes as a medium for the preparation, storage, and transmission of data.
• The first practical typewriting machine was conceived by three American inventors and friends, Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samual W. Soule who spent their evenings tinkering together.
• The friends sold their design to Remington and Sons, who hired William K. Jenne to perfect the prototype, resulting in the release of the first commercial typewriter in 1874.
• Herman Holleriths Tabulating Machines were used for the 1890 census the machines used Jacquards punched cards.
• In 1926, Dr. Julius Edgar Lilienfield from New York filed for a patent on a transistor.
• Konrad Zuse, a German engineer, completes the 1st general purpose programmable calculator in 1941.
• Colossus, a British computer used for code-breaking, is operational by the end of 1943.
• ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzor and Computer) is developed by Ballistics Research Lab in Maryland and built by the University of Pennsylvania and completed in 1945.
• The transistor is developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1947.
• UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) is developed in 1951 and can store 12,000 digits in random access mercury-delay lines.
• EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Computer) is completed for the Ordinance Department in 1952.
• Texas Instruments and Fairchild Semiconductor both announce the integrated circuit in 1959.
• The IBM 360 is introduced in April of 1964 and quickly becomes the standard institutional mainframe computer. By the mid-80s the 360 and its descendents have generated more than 100 billion in revenue for IBM.
• The Mini Era began with the development of the integrated circuit in 1959 by Texas Instruments and Fairchild Semiconductor.
• Ivan Sutherland demonstrates a program called Sketchpad (makes engineering drawings with a light pen) on a TX-2 mainframe at MITs Lincoln Labs in 1962.
• By 1965, an integrated circuit that cost 1,000 in 1959 now costs less than 10.
• Doug Engelbart demonstrates a word processor in 1968.
• Also in 1968, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce founded a company called Intel.
• Xerox creates its Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) in 1969.
• Fairchild Semiconductor introduces a 256-bit RAM chip in 1970.
• In late 1970 Intel introduces a 1K RAM chip and the 4004, a 4-bit microprocessor. Two years later comes the 8008, an 8-bit processor.
• Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data in 1971 to sell their computer traffic-analysis sytems.
• Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel Microprocessor.
• Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are building and selling blue boxes in Southern California in 1971.
• Intel introduces the 8008, the first 8-bit microprocessor in April of 1972.
• Jonathan A. Titus designs the Mark-8 and is featured in the July 1974 Radio Electronics.
• In January 1975 Popular Electronics features the MITS Altair 8800 it is hailed as the first personal computer.
• Paul Allen and Bill Gates develop BASIC for the Altair 8800. Microsoft is born!!!
• Apple is selling its Apple II for 1,195, including 16K of RAM but no monitor by 1977.
• Software Arts develops the first spreadsheet program, Visicalc by the spring of 1979. 500 copies per month are shipped in 1979 and sales increase to 12,000 per month by 1981.
• By 1980 Apple has captured 50 of the personal computer market.
• In 1980 Microsoft is approached by IBM to develop BASIC for its personal computer project. The IBM PC is released in August, 1981.
• The Apple Macintosh, featuring a simple graphical interface using the 8-MHz, 32-bit Motorola 68000 CPU and a built-in 9-inch B/W screen, debuts in 1984.
• Microsoft Windows 1.0 ships in November, 1985.
• Microsofts sales for 1989 reach 1 billion.
• Timesharing, the concept of linking a large numbers of users to a single computer via remote terminals, is developed at MIT in the late 50s and early 60s.
• Paul Baran of RAND develops the idea of distributed, packet-switching networks.
• ARPANET goes online in 1969.
• Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf develop the basic ideas of the Internet in 1973.
• In 1974 BBN opens the first public packet-switched network Telenet.
• A UUCP link between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University establishes USENET in 1979.
• TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol) is established as the standard for ARPANET in 1982.
• The number of network hosts breaks 10,000 in 1987 two years later, the number of hosts breaks 100,000.
• Tem Berners-Lee develops the World Wide Web. CERN releases the first Web server in 1991.
• By 1992, the number of network hosts breaks 1,000,000.
• The World Wide Web sports a growth rate of 341,634 in service traffic in its third year--1993.
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• http//www.maxmon.com/history.htm
• http//ei.cs.vt.edu/history/
• http//www.cybergeography.org/atlas/historical.htm l
• http//www.computerhistory.org

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