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| | History of Computers WebQuest |
 | | A Chronology of Computer History: a timeline on the history of the computer. | | | As a computer technology student and a future educator it is important to understand the history of computers. | | | A Short History of Computing history of computing report by an eighth grader. |
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http://www.smadison.k12.in.us/TechPD/history_of_computers.htm
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| | History of Computers |
| | The IEEE Annals of the History of Computing | | | History of Computing: Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC) | | | Documents about Computers produced or collected by the Pentagon and distributed by Storming Media, including ones abouit Bionics; Computer Hardware; Computer Programming and Software; Computer Systems; Cybernetics; and Information Science. |
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http://www.hitmill.com/computers/computerhx2.html
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| | History of Computers |
| | History of Computers: Part 1 & Part 2 are a compiled directory of computer history links for students and researchers. | | | Iowa State University Department of Computer Science, birthplace of the electronic digital computer. | | | John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer (upenn.edu) |
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http://www.hitmill.com/computers/computerhx1.html
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| | The Virtual Museum of Computing |
| | History of Computing from the IEEE Computer Society. | | | IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 18(1):65, Spring 1996. | | | History of Computing links by Horst Zuse, son of the computer pioneer |
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http://vmoc.museophile.org
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| | History of Computers in Education |
| | History, the History of Computers, and the History of Computers in Education | | | Mainframe host computers are not widely accepted in schools that are still using the si ngle classroom, teacher/manager method of delivering information to students. | | | Simple simulation programs are developed for personal computers. |
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http://www.csulb.edu/~murdock/histofcs.html
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| | Introduction |
| | Develop a timeline of the computers and inventors in the history of computers. | | | This WebQuest was developed for an accelerated computer science class that is quite savvy on the computer. | | | www.computerhistory.org/ - computer history, today in the history of computers. |
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http://www.berksiu.k12.pa.us/webquest/mccaffrey
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| | THE HISTORY OF COMPUTERS !! |
| | Structure of a second-generation computer: the IBM 7094 | | | The concept of computer memory is still used in today's computers. | | | The IAS computer can be taken as reprisentive computer of what are now called first generation computer. |
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http://www.eece.maine.edu/~segee/classes/ece473/comphist
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| | Short History of the Internet by Bruce Sterling |
| | Their idea was to have the program for the computer stored inside the computer. | | | The Altair was not designed for your computer novice. | | | Operating systems are the interface between the user and the computer, enabling the user to type high-level commands such as "format a:" into the computer, rather that issuing complex assembler or C commands. |
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http://w3.aces.uiuc.edu/AIM/scale/comphistory.html
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| | History of Computers |
| | Computers are distinguished from a Calculating machine (such as an Electronic Calculator) by it's abbility to store computer programs (enabling to repeat its operations and logical decisions), by its number and complexity of the operations that it can perform, and it's abbility to process, store, and retrieve data without human intervention. | | | Analog computers operate on data that is continuously varying; while Digital computers perform operations on discrete data. | | | The History in Computer Science is a major topic. |
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http://techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us/fall022/INDEX2.HTM
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| | Computer History Museum - Timeline |
| | The first personal computer with a graphical user interface, its development was central in the move to such systems for personal computers. | | | The SEAC was the first computer to use all-diode logic, a technology more reliable than vacuum tubes, and the first stored-program computer completed in the United States. | | | Thi Truong developed the computer and Philippe Kahn the software. |
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http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/timeline.php?timeline_category=cmptr
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| | History of Computers |
| | The first generation of codes used to program a computer, called machine language or machine code, is the only language a computer really understands; a sequence of 0s and 1s that the computer's controls interprets electrically as instructions. | | | The machine was classified as a relay computer because of its electromagnetic relays and all output was displayed on an electric typewriter. | | | In 1960, IBM built the 7090 which was the first commercial transistorized computer and the fastest computer in the world known at that time. |
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http://www-scf.usc.edu/~epitts/computers.html
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| | Open Directory - Computers: History |
| | The History of Computing Science: From the Past to the Present - Lecture presented by Michelle A. Hoyle explaining how computers and computing science arose from using sticks with notches for counting, to the massive explosion of personal computers in the 1980s. | | | History of Computers - A directory of sites about the history of computers arranged categorically and with specific topic and general topic sections. | | | Museum of the USSR Computers History - A virtual museum containing historical information on computers and computer facilities in the USSR. |
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http://dmoz.org/Computers/History
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| | History of Computing Science: Computer History from the Past |
| | History of Computing Science: Computer History from the Past | | | The first (and only) lecture in the series is about the history of computing from the past to the present. | | | It was not intended for the computing science major student. |
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http://www.eingang.org/Lecture
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| | A Brief Timeline in the History of Computers |
| | The teleprinter is not a computer but connects with and displays interactions with the computer. | | | The Nobel Prize for the development of Computer Assisted Tomography was awarded to Cormack and Hounsfield in 1979. | | | What formerly required many computer chips with connecting wires for the arithmetic, logic and control components, was now on one chip, significantly reducing the complexity and cost of manufacturing the heart of a computer. |
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http://www.ceap.wcu.edu/Houghton/EDELCompEduc/Ch1/historykeylist.html
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| | Chronology of Personal Computers |
| | The first transistorized computer is completed, the TX-O (Transistorized Experimental computer), at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | | | This is the first computer language program written for a personal computer. | | | Creative Computing, the first magazine for home computer users, is founded. |
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http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist
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| | THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING |
| | Lee, until 1995 Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, past chair of the IEEE Computer Society History of Computing Committee and current chair of the IFIP Working Group 9.7 (History of Computing). | | | A collection of materials intended to describe the history of computing to those interested in the 50th Anniversary of Computing in 1996 was used by students at Virginia Tech to develop a Virtual Museum of Computing that you may find very interesting. | | | This collection of materials relating to the history of computing is provided courtesy of the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, and is sponsored in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation (CDA-9312611). |
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http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history
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| | Computer Industry History |
| | History of the Development of Parallel Computing (1955-1993) | | | History of Computing - Main Events from 1937 to 1999 by MB Solutions | | | Chronology of Computer History: 3000 BC to the Present |
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http://www.elsop.com/wrc/h_comput.htm
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| | History of Computers/Internet Theme Page |
| | Triumph of the Nerds: A History of the Computer | | | The Institute is "dedicated to promoting the study of the history of computing and its impact on society..." They encourage the research and writing in the history of computing through fellowhips and by making resources and information available to scholars, scientists and members of the public. | | | These pictures are of the earliest computers to more modern supercomputers. |
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http://www.cln.org/themes/computer_history.html
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| | History of computers during 1980 to 1990 |
| | The Tandy 1000 personal computer is introduced and becomes the best-selling IBM-compatible computer of the year. | | | This computer greatly influences the development of Apple’s future computer models, Lisa and Macintosh, as well as Microsoft’s Windows. | | | The computer contained one megabyte of RAM, new keyboard that contained cursors and numeric keypad and sold for $2,600. |
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http://www.computerhope.com/history/198090.htm
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| | Internet Public Library: History of Computers & Internet |
| | A museum focusing on the history of computing. | | | Information on computer history includingHistory of Computing Foundation biographies, a timeline, and information on companies, hardware and software. | | | A detailed history of algebra and computing that provides many hypertext links to the people and places that were important in its development. |
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http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum30.03.30
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| | History of Computers |
| | Neumann drafted a report on a stored-program computer (Neumann computer). | | | Atanasoff and Berry designed the first digital computer. | | | Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper developed the MARK I, a electro-mechanical computer, used by the US Navy for serious calculations. |
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http://www.cyberiapc.com/cmphistory.htm
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| | Milestone in Computing |
| | Below is a list of famous people and computers in the history of computing. | | | The list is divided into five categories or generations based on the type of technology used in the construction of the computers or computing devices. | | | The IEEE Computer Society has an excellent web site on the history of computing including an excellent timeline. |
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http://www.wittenberg.edu/academics/mathcomp/bjsdir/bjshistory.shtml
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| | History of Computers - Long, Long Ago |
| | Simplest definition of a computer: A device that processes input and generates output | | | Modern Computers are electronic, complex, and interactive, but can be reduced to simple input-output processing devices | | | Over the past 50 years, the Electronic Computer has evolved rapidly. |
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http://www.msu.edu/course/lbs/126/lectures/history.html
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| | A Brief History of Computers |
| | Of course, Babbage didn't actually invent the computer as we know it - that would have to wait until there was a more efficient way to produce electricity other than rubbing a cat or flying a kite in a thunderstorm - but he was the originator of the basic concepts of digital computing. | | | True enough, Bunky, but the real significance of Babbage's contributions to computer history is the fact that he invented the basic concepts of the logical structure of modern computers. | | | The next milestone in the history of computing was Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine <> which he invented for the U.S. Census Bureau in 1890. |
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http://www.warbaby.com/FG_test/comp_history.html
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| | History of Computers |
| | "A Chronology of Digital Computing Machines (to 1952)" 9 April 1994. | | | Timeline of Computer History from Boston's Computer Museum Network | | | History of Computing by John A. Lee, from Virginia Tech |
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http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/computer2.html
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| | Intel Education: TJI: Intro to Computers: Lesson 1 |
| | What made modern computers possible was the invention of something that could do calculations and other information processing with no moving parts and do it very fast. | | | Ada Byron King (Countess of Lovelace) was his programmer and today is considered the mother of computer programming. | | | With electronic components, a fast and efficient machine such as Babbage proposed could be built with all four components essential to modern computing. |
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http://www97.intel.com/discover/JourneyInside/TJI_Intro_lesson1/default.aspx
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| | Amazon.com: Computers: An Illustrated History: Books: Christian Wurster |
| | Discover the fascinating history of computers, interfaces, and computer design in this illustrated guide that includes pictures of nearly every computer ever made, an informative text describing the computer's evolution up to the present day, and an A-Z index of the most influential computer firms. | | | Most books on the history of computing are dry treatises without a lot of good illustrations, but this one is different. | | | A History of Modern Computing : Second Edition (History of Computing) by Paul E. Ceruzzi |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3822812935?v=glance
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| | World History Compass, History of Computers |
| | Main events in the history of computing since 1937. | | | The history of the software industry and the stories of its creative entrepreneurs and software developers starting from its beginnings in the 1950s. | | | A number of biographies of pioneering women of computing. |
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http://www.worldhistorycompass.com/compute.htm
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| | Computer and Internet History |
| | The Smithsonian Computer History Section includes an on-line slide show of their "Information Age" exhibit and the text of oral histories they are collecting from people who are the innovators of the computer era. | | | The virtual museum is a collection of links to information about computers and computer history. | | | A short history of the computer industry in Silicon Valley. |
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http://www.imagescape.com/helpweb/history/background.html
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| | History of computers |
| | I was looking for some information on the history of computers and found some good sites. | | | The computer "Baby" used a CRT for data storage and it used repeated subtraction to do division. | | | History of Computers During My Lifetime 1980s IBM PC/Commodore/Mac/Atari ST/Amiga/386/Sparc/NExT/SGI |
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http://home.intranet.org/~troy/history.html
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| | The Machine That Changed the World |
| | This collection of materials relating to the history of computing is provided courtesy of the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, and is sponsored in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation (CDA-9312611). | | | She is perhaps best known for her discovery of the first computer bug in the Harvard Mark II computer. | | | Sunsequently she became deeply involved in the development of high level languages for computers, creating the concept of a compiler, and two early languages. |
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http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/TMTCTW.html
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| | Intel Education: TJI: Explore the Curriculum: Intro to Computers |
| | In this section, you will learn a bit about the history of computers, the four essential components of a computer, and the differences between your brain and a computer. | | | To understand the digital world, the best place to begin is the device you are using right now—the computer. | | | Before you start exploring, though, review these brief instructions to help you make the most of this resource. |
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http://www97.intel.com/discover/JourneyInside/TJI_Intro/default.aspx
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| | Open Directory - Computers: Internet: History |
| | History of the Internet: Internet for Historians - This overview by Richard T. Griffiths covers the development of computers, ArpaNet, email, search engines and Basic Net Data. | | | Brief History of the Internet - Ross Shannon provides an overview of the Internet's origins, from ARPANET and email to the Web. | | | The Internet: Past, Present and Future: Internet and WWW History - Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of the Internet. |
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http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/History
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| | Cynthia Lanius' Lessons: The History of Geometry |
| | The invention of computers has greatly aided the study of fractals since many calculations are required. | | | Fractals are geometric figures that model many natural structures like ferns or clouds. | | | It seems to have been known from most ancient of times that the ratio of the circumference and diameter of a circle is a constant, but what is that constant? |
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http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Geom/his.html
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| | The History Of Computers During My Lifetime |
| | In this document I take a quick look at the great moments in the history of computers during my lifetime. | | | Over time it should hopefully build up to become a fascinating look back into history. | | | All the trademarks mentioned in the above document are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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http://www.pattosoft.com.au/jason/Articles/HistoryOfComputers
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