Universaalarvutite teke: II maailmasõda kuni 1965

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• Zuse, Neumann ja Hopper; esimesed programmeerimiskeeled

• Transistorid, integraalskeemid, mälu

• Esimene kõrgkeel: Fortran

• Integraalskeemid ja protsessorifirmade teke

• Suur-, mini- ja mikroarvutid

Konrad Zuse began work on Plankalkul (plan Calculus). The first algorithmic programming language, with an aim of creating the theoretical preconditions for the formulation of problems of a general nature.

• Konrad Zuse began work on Plankalkul (plan Calculus). The first algorithmic programming language, with an aim of creating the theoretical preconditions for the formulation of problems of a general nature.

• John von Neumann wrote "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC." (ENIAC->EDVAC)

• A memory containing both data and instructions. Also to allow both data and instruction memory locations to be read from, and written to, in any desired order.
• A calculating unit capable of performing both arithmetic and logical operations on the data.
• A control unit, which could interpret an instruction retrieved from the memory and select alternative courses of action based on the results of previous operations (computer could modify its own programs : Babbage).

• Grace Hopper recorded the first actual computer actual "bug."

In February, the public got its first glimpse of the ENIAC, a machine built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert that improved by 1,000 times on the speed of its contemporaries.

• In February, the public got its first glimpse of the ENIAC, a machine built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert that improved by 1,000 times on the speed of its contemporaries.

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• START OF PROJECT: 1943

• COMPLETED: 1946

• PROGRAMMED: plug board and switches

• SPEED: 5,000 operations per second

• INPUT/OUTPUT: cards, lights, switches, plugs

• FLOOR SPACE: 1,000 square feet

• PROJECT LEADERS: John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert.

• The second (Anastasoff) general-purpose electronic computer greatest problems with computers built from vacuum tubes was reliability; 90% of ENIAC's down-time was attributed to locating and replacing burnt-out tubes – 50 a day

Three scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories, William Shockley, Walter Brattain, and John Bardeen demonstrate their new invention of the point-contact transistor amplifier. (really pre-invented-1926)

• Three scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories, William Shockley, Walter Brattain, and John Bardeen demonstrate their new invention of the point-contact transistor amplifier. (really pre-invented-1926)

   

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 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Schockley of Bell Labs file for a patent on the first transistor.

•  John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Schockley of Bell Labs file for a patent on the first transistor.

• The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Claude Shannon's "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" showed engineers how to code data so they could check for accuracy after transmission between computers. Shannon identified the bit as the fundamental unit of data and, coincidentally, the basic unit of computation.

• Norbert Wiener published "Cybernetics," a major influence on later research into artificial intelligence. He drew on his World War II experiments with anti-aircraft systems that anticipated the course of enemy planes by interpreting radar images.

• Maurice Wilkes assembled the EDSAC, the first practical stored-program computer, at Cambridge University. His ideas grew out of the Moore School lectures he had attended three years earlier. For programming the EDSAC, Wilkes established a library of short programs called subroutines stored on punched paper tapes.

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• TECHNOLOGY: vacuum tubes

• MEMORY: 1K words, 17 bits, mercury delay line

• SPEED: 714 operations per second

• PROGRAM: Credited as using one of the first assemblers called "Initial Orders," which allowed it to be programmed symbolically instead of using machine code.

      Engineering Research Associates of Minneapolis built the ERA 1101, the first commercially produced computer; the company's first customer was the U.S. Navy.

•       Engineering Research Associates of Minneapolis built the ERA 1101, the first commercially produced computer; the company's first customer was the U.S. Navy.

• It held 1 million bits on its magnetic drum, the earliest magnetic storage devices. Drums registered information as magnetic pulses in tracks around a metal cylinder. Read/write heads both recorded and recovered the data. Drums eventually stored as many as 4,000 words and retrieved any one of them in as little as five-thousandths of a second.

      The UNIVAC I (universal automatic computer ) delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau was the first commercial computer to attract widespread public attention. Although manufactured by Remington Rand, the machine often was mistakenly referred to as the "IBM UNIVAC." Remington Rand eventually sold 46 machines at more than $1 million each.

•       The UNIVAC I (universal automatic computer ) delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau was the first commercial computer to attract widespread public attention. Although manufactured by Remington Rand, the machine often was mistakenly referred to as the "IBM UNIVAC." Remington Rand eventually sold 46 machines at more than $1 million each.

• SPEED: 1,905 operations per second

• INPUT/OUTPUT: magnetic tape, unityper, printer

• MEMORY SIZE: 1,000 12-digit words in delay lines

• MEMORY TYPE: delay lines, magnetic tape

• TECHNOLOGY: serial vacuum tubes, delay lines, magnetic tape

• FLOOR SPACE: 943 cubic feet

• COST: F.O.B. factory $750,000 plus

Strachey wrote a checkers program for the Ferranti Mark I at Manchester (with Turing's encouragement and utilising the latter's recently completed Programmers' Handbook for the Ferranti computer). By the summer of 1952 this program could, Strachey reported, "play a complete game of Draughts at a reasonable speed".

• Strachey wrote a checkers program for the Ferranti Mark I at Manchester (with Turing's encouragement and utilising the latter's recently completed Programmers' Handbook for the Ferranti computer). By the summer of 1952 this program could, Strachey reported, "play a complete game of Draughts at a reasonable speed".

• Prinz's chess program, also written for the Ferranti Mark I, first ran in November 1951. It was for solving simple problems of the mate-in-two variety. The program would examine every possible move until a solution was found. On average several thousand moves had to be examined in the course of solving a problem, and the program was considerably slower than a human player.

• Turing started to program his Turochamp chess-player on the Ferranti Mark I but never completed the task. Unlike Prinz's program, the Turochamp could play a complete game and operated not by exhaustive search but under the guidance of rule-of-thumb principles devised by Turing.

Heinz Nixdorf founded Nixdorf Computer Corp. in Germany. It remained an independent corporation until merging with Siemens in 1990.

• Heinz Nixdorf founded Nixdorf Computer Corp. in Germany. It remained an independent corporation until merging with Siemens in 1990.

• A complaint is filed against IBM, alleging monopolistic practices in its computer business, in violation of the Sherman Act.

• G. W. Dummer, a radar expert from Britain's Royal Radar Establishment presents a paper proposing that a solid block of materials be used to connect electronic components, with no connecting wires.

•     Texas Instruments announces the start of commercial production on silicon transistors. [110]

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•    IBM 650

• William Shockley founds Shockley Semiconductor in Palo Alto, California

• However, the venture did

• not go well, partly because

• of Shockley's managerial

• style, and partly because

• he diverted resources away

• from transistor technology

• and into the creation of a

• 4-layer switching diode, a

• device which he had

• conceived whilst still at Bell.

A U.S. District Court makes a final judgement on the complaint against IBM filed in January 1952 regarding monopolistic practices. A "consent decree" is signed by IBM, placing limitations on how IBM conducts business with respect to "electronic data processing machines".

• A U.S. District Court makes a final judgement on the complaint against IBM filed in January 1952 regarding monopolistic practices. A "consent decree" is signed by IBM, placing limitations on how IBM conducts business with respect to "electronic data processing machines".

• The era of magnetic disk storage dawned IBM develops the first hard disk, the RAMAC 305, with 50 two-foot diameter platters. Total capacity is 5 MB. (350 Disk Storage Unit) (Random Access Method)

• The first transistorized computer is completed, the TX-O (Transistorized Experimental computer), at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• The Nobel Prize in physics is awarded to John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley for their work on the transistor.

  A new language, FORTRAN (short for formula translator), enabled a computer to perform a repetitive task from a single set of instructions by using loops.

•   A new language, FORTRAN (short for formula translator), enabled a computer to perform a repetitive task from a single set of instructions by using loops.

• The first commercial FORTRAN

• program ran at Westinghouse,

• producing a missing comma

• diagnostic.

• A successful attempt followed.

A group of eight engineers leaves Shockley Semiconductor to form Fairchild Semiconductors.

• A group of eight engineers leaves Shockley Semiconductor to form Fairchild Semiconductors.

• Kenneth Olsen founds

• Digital Equipment Corporation.

• IBM 610 Auto-Point Computer: described as being "IBM's first personal computer”(intended for use by a single operator). It cost $55,000!

At Texas Instruments, Jack St. Clair Kilby comes up with the idea of creating a monolithic device (integrated circuit) on a single piece of silicon.

• At Texas Instruments, Jack St. Clair Kilby comes up with the idea of creating a monolithic device (integrated circuit) on a single piece of silicon.

• Later (in 2000) Kilby receives Nobel

• price in physics

• Jack Kilby completes building

• the first integrated circuit, containing

• five components on a piece of germanium

• half an inch long and thinner than a toothpick.

SAGE -- Semi-Automatic Ground Environment -- linked hundreds of radar stations in the United States and Canada in the first large-scale computer communications network.

• SAGE -- Semi-Automatic Ground Environment -- linked hundreds of radar stations in the United States and Canada in the first large-scale computer communications network.

Fairchild Semiconductor files a patent application for the planar process for manufacturing transistors. The process makes commercial production of transistors possible and leads to Fairchild's introduction, in two years, of the first integrated circuit.

• Fairchild Semiconductor files a patent application for the planar process for manufacturing transistors. The process makes commercial production of transistors possible and leads to Fairchild's introduction, in two years, of the first integrated circuit.

• Texas Instruments announces the discovery of the integrated circuit.

• At Fairchild Semiconductor, Robert Noyce constructs an integrated circuit with components connected by aluminum lines on a silicon-oxide surface layer on a plane of silicon.

• Fairchild Semiconductor announces their independent discovery of the integrated circuit.

IBM develops the first automatic mass-production facility for transistors, in New York.

• IBM develops the first automatic mass-production facility for transistors, in New York.

• AT&T designed its Dataphone, the first commercial modem, specifically for converting digital computer data to analog signals for transmission across its long distance network This development improved transmission efficiency in national and global systems.

A team drawn from several computer manufacturers and the Pentagon developed COBOL, Common Business Oriented Language. Project leader: Grace Hopper.

• A team drawn from several computer manufacturers and the Pentagon developed COBOL, Common Business Oriented Language. Project leader: Grace Hopper.

• LISP made its debut as the first computer language designed for writing artificial intelligence programs. Inventor: John McCarthy.

Fairchild Semiconductor releases the first commercial integrated circuit.

• Fairchild Semiconductor releases the first commercial integrated circuit.

• According to Datamation magazine, IBM had an 81.2-percent share of the computer market in 1961, the year in which it introduced the 1400 Series.

Teletype ships its Model 33 keyboard and punched-tape terminal, used for input and output on many early microcomputers.

• Teletype ships its Model 33 keyboard and punched-tape terminal, used for input and output on many early microcomputers.

• Components  Virtual memory emerged from a team under the direction of Tom Kilburn at the University of Manchester. Virtual memory permitted a computer to use its storage capacity to run outside software and switch rapidly among multiple programs.

• Ivan Sutherland published Sketchpad, an interactive, real time computer drawing system, as his MIT doctoral thesis. Using a light pen and Sketchpad, a designer could draw and manipulate geometric figures on the screen.

Douglas Engelbart receives a patent on the mouse pointing device for computers. – see 1968 !

• Douglas Engelbart receives a patent on the mouse pointing device for computers. – see 1968 !

• ASCII -- American Standard Code for Information Interchange -- permitted machines from different manufacturers to exchange data

• Digital Equipment sells its first minicomputer, to Atomic Energy of Canada.

Ian Sharp and others found I.P. Sharp Associates, in Canada.

• Ian Sharp and others found I.P. Sharp Associates, in Canada.

• IBM announced System/360, a family of six mutually compatible computers and 40 peripherals that could work together.

 Gordon Moore suggests that integrated circuits would double in complexity every year. This later becomes known as Moore's Law.

•  Gordon Moore suggests that integrated circuits would double in complexity every year. This later becomes known as Moore's Law.

 

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• John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop the BASIC programming language at Dartmouth College. BASIC is an acronym for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

• Online transaction processing (OLTP) made its debut in IBM's SABRE reservation system, set up for American Airlines. Using telephone lines, SABRE linked 2,000 terminals in 65 cities to a pair of IBM 7090 computers, delivering data on any flight in less than three seconds.

• CDC's 6600 supercomputer, designed by Seymour Cray, performed up to 3 million instructions per second -- a processing speed three times faster than that of its closest competitor, the IBM Stretch.

Digital Equipment Corp. introduced the PDP-8, the first commercially successful minicomputer. The PDP-8 sold for $18,000, one-fifth the price of a small IBM 360 mainframe. The speed, small size, and reasonable cost enabled the PDP-8 to go into thousands of manufacturing plants, small businesses, and scientific laboratories.

• Digital Equipment Corp. introduced the PDP-8, the first commercially successful minicomputer. The PDP-8 sold for $18,000, one-fifth the price of a small IBM 360 mainframe. The speed, small size, and reasonable cost enabled the PDP-8 to go into thousands of manufacturing plants, small businesses, and scientific laboratories.