Way back at Morristown High School, around '69, we got an old IBM 1620. It was focused on scientific computation, in contrast to the 1133. Lots of blinking lights and code that allowed very primitive ...
Inspired by A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi. But the selection of key events in the journey from ENIAC to Tesla, from Data Processing to Big Data, is mine. This ...
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The world’s first computer sank 2,000 years ago. Science finally solved one of its biggest mysteries.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human history, and there’s an ...
A century before the dawn of the computer age, Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer. It could be programmed to follow instructions, she wrote in 1843. It could not just ...
This month marks the 50th anniversary of Intel's 4004 processor, the first commercially available microprocessor built on a single chip. Originally designed for a Japanese desk calculator, it helped ...
Ada Lovelace’s wisdom about the first general-purpose computer can be found buried in the appendix of another paper Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, better known as Ada Lovelace, was ...
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