1962 First computer game & word processor

1962 First computer game & word processor

Steve Russell at MIT invents Space war, the first computer game running on a DEC PDP-1.
Because the PDP-1 had a typewriter interface,  editors like TECO (Text Editor and Corrector) were written for it.

Steve Piner and L. Peter Deutsch produced the first “word processor” called Expensive

Typewriter (MIT's PDP-1 cost $100,000).

1960 – First commercial transistorized computers

1960 – First commercial transistorized computers

DEC introduced the PDP-1and IBM released the 7090 which was the fastest in the world.

1954 – FORTRAN and 1958 – Integrated Circuit computer History.

1954 – FORTRAN

John Backus & IBM invent the first successful high level programming language, and compiler, that ran on IBM 701 computers.

FORmula TRANslation was designed to make calculating the answers to  scientific and    math problems easier.

1958 – Integrated Circuit

Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments & Robert Noyce at Fairchild semiconductor independently invent the first integrated circuits or “the chip”.

Jack Kilby was awarded the National Medal of Science and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the integrated circuit.

Grace Hopper 1906-1992 computer History

Grace Hopper 1906-1992

Developed the first compiler (A-0, later ARITH-MATIC, MATH-MATIC and FLOW-MATIC) while working at the Remington Rand corporation on the UNIVAC I.

Later returned to the NAVY where she worked on COBOL and was eventually promoted to Rear Admiral.

Grace Hopper 1906-1992

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, US Navy, and other programmers at a UNIVAC console - 1957

Some of Grace Hopper's Awards

She won the first "man of the year" award from the Data Processing Management Association in 1969.

She became the first person from the United States and the first woman of any nationality to be made a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society in 1973.

Upon her retirement she received the Defense Distinguished Service Medal in 1986

She received the National Medal of Technology in 1991.

1953 – IBM 701 EDPM Computer

IBM enters the market with its first large scale electronic computer.
It was designed to be incomparable with IBM's existing punch card processing system, so that it would not cut into IBM's existing profit sources.

Computing History 1947-1951

1947 –The transistor

Invented by William Shockley (seated) John Bardeen & Walter Brattain at Bell Labs.
The transistor replaces bulky vacuum tubes with a smaller, more reliable, and power saving solid sate circuit.

1951 – UNIVAC

First commercial computer -  Between 1951 and 1958, 47 UNIVAC I computers were delivered.

1951 – UNIVAC Mercury delay unit (1 of 7)þ

UNIVAC mercury delay units containing 18 delay lines, each of which stored 120 bits. Total of 2,160 bits, or 144 fifteen bit words per memory unit.

1951 – UNIVAC

UNIVAC tape units.

1951 – UNIVAC

UNIVAC tube board and individual vacuum tube.

Computing History 1943/1944/1946

1943/1944 – Colossus Mark I & II.

The Colossus Mark I & II are widely acknowledged as the first programmable electric computers, and were used at Bletchley Park to decode German codes encrypted by the Lorenz SZ40/42.

1946–John Eckert & John W. Mauchly ENIAC 1 Computer.

ENIAC was short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer. It was the first general

purpose (programmable to solve any problem) electric computer. It contained over 17,000

vacuum tubes, weighed 27 tones and drew 150 kW of power to operate.