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Computer History: From The Antikythera Mechanism To The Modern Era

by Aris Mpitziopoulos July 3, 2016 at 9:00 AM

In Mountain View, California, only minutes away from Google's headquarters, is the Computer History Museum. A visit to this place is enough to show you how today's computing era began and evolved through time. If you are interested in this stuff and love history in general, you can closely examine the computers that thrived in the past and opened the door for today's modern computing systems.

A very long and informative photo essay, (at 38 tall pages) but I had to read all of it.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/history-of-computers,4518.html

  1. Introduction
  2. The Antikythera Mechanism
  3. The Pascaline And Other Early Calculators
  4. Babbage's Analytical Engine, Ada Lovelace And Programming
  5. IBM In Its Early Years
  6. The Triode, Transistor And Op-Amp
  7. Alan Turing And The COLOSSUS
  8. Claude Shannon's Master Thesis
  9. The First Electronic Digital Special-Purpose Computer
  10. Harvard Mark Ι
  11. Stibitz's Complex Number Calculator And Nordsieck's Differential Analyzer
  12. Konrad Zuse's Z Series Computers & Plankalkül Programming Language
  13. The First Bug In Computer History
  14. ENIAC And EDVAC Computers
  15. UNIVersal Automatic Computer I - UNIVAC I
  16. Big Blue Makes Its Entry In The Computer Market
  17. Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE)
  18. TX-0, DEC PDP-1, The Hacking Ethic And Other DEC Computers
  19. Cray Supercomputers
  20. The Information Technology Revolution - The First Processors (CPUs)
  21. Xerox PARC And ALTO Computer
  22. The Era Of Microcomputers: ALTAIR 8800 And Other Early Computers
  23. Apple I And II: Switching PSU And The Lack Of Cooling Fans
  24. Commodore PET And TRS-80
  25. VisiCalc's Revolution And IBM's Entrance Into The Personal Computer Market
  26. ZX SPECTRUM: The Home Computer Era Begins
  27. Commodore 64 And CP/M
  28. Amstrad 464, 664 And 6128
  29. Atari 520ST And 1040ST(F)
  30. ATARI TOS, (Mega) STE, TT And The Jaguar Gaming Console
  31. Commodore Amiga
  32. Intel 80386 And The Attack Of The Clone PCs: Acorn Archimedes
  33. NeXT Cube
  34. The First Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)
  35. The First Video Games And Game Consoles
  36. Video Games And Game Consoles Of The 1980s, 1990s And Beyond
  37. Keyboards And Mice
  38. Epilogue
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