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21 Cards in this Set
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WWII
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required computers to do calculations for the war
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Early Computers
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could only do one task... lengthy set up time
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1930's
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people needed computers but didn't have them
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Konrad Zuse
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a civil engineer who began peicing together a computer because he was bored of his job's calculations
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Z1 Computer
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made by Zuse, became the first of a line of mechanical computers
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George Stibitz
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(1910-1995) Mathematician who worked at Bell Labs
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Complex Number Calculator
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built by Stibitz it was the first computer accessed over a phone line
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Howard Aiken
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1937 proposed automated calculating machine
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Harvard Mark I
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built by Harvard and IBM it was proposed by Aiken... completed in 1944 it helped create the first American atomic bomb
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Mark II, III, IV
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the next models of the Mark I
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ENIAC
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Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer used by the military for ballistics tables
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John Mauchly
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1942 proposed ENIAC
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Presper Eckert
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electric engineer working with John Mauchly to propose ENIAC
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Bletchley Park
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British intelligence center for breaking the German code of WWII
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Colossus
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computer that was a great British success in helping to break the German code
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Software
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stored computer instructions
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John Von Neumann
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laid the ground work for stored program computers with his report on ENIAC's successor
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Princeton's IAS
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Institute for Advanced Study started by Neumann... created a stored memory computer in 1951... made the design public
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JOHNNIAC
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built by RAND Corporation based on the one made by IAS and was named after Neumann... completed in 1954
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EDSAC
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Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator developed at Cambridge... 1st programs in 1954 and became first stored memory computer in regular use
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Alan Turing (british)
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created 7 computer designs
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