A Historical Perspective

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A Historical Perspective

• Mech Johnson

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3 Perspectives

• From Mainframe to PC
• From Computing to Communication
• The changing face of security

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Question 1The first computers were built during

• WWI
• WWII
• Korean War
• Vietnam War

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Question 2 For the first moon landing in 1969
the astronauts had on board a computer which used

• Vacuum tubes
• Integrated circuits
• Microprocessors
• There were no computers on board

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Question 3 May 23rd, 1980, Mt. St. Helen
EruptsWhich computer was not yet available?

• Apple
• IBM PC
• Commodore
• The Radio Shack TRS 80

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1939

• APRIL 30  At the opening ceremonies of the
  World's Fair, FDR is the first president to be
  televised.
  
•   TV sets go on sale next day. 
• RCA (NBC) begin regular broadcasts on a daily
  basis.

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Jack Tramiel was born in Lodz,
Poland, in 1929 as Idek Tramielski
1939 Germans invade Poland
1944 Jack loses his parents in Auschwitz
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1st Generation, 1943 1956, vacuum tubes
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• 1941 Colossus England (Alan Turing, Neuman)
• 1941 Z3 Computer Germany (?)
• 1944 Colossus II England
• 1944 Mark I, IBM and Aiken (Harvard)
• 1945 First Computer Bug found in Mark II

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By the end of World War II in 1945,
Grace Hopper was working on the Mark II
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John W. Mauchly (1907-1980),
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Univac's Fastrand II drum used with the Univac
1108 in the last 1960s. This drum held 22M 36 bit
words. The drum stood in a frame about 1.8M high
and weighing about 2 tons. It had a window on the
front to allow operators (or the public if the
drum was placed appropriately) to watch the drum
in operation.
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In operation, it emitted a deep rumble
accompanied by a whoosh of air much like the
engine room in Star Trek.
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1947 William Shockley Invention of the transistor

Shockleys Sandwich
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radio
Transistor radio
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• The year 1953 saw the development of IBM's 701
  EDPM, which, according to IBM, was the first
  commercially successful general-purpose computer.
  
• The 701's invention was part of the Korean War
  effort. Thomas Johnson Watson, Jr. wanted to
  contribute a "defense calculator" to aid in the
  United Nations' policing of Korea.

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January 54, GE installs a UNIVAC

• It was the very first installation of an
  electronic computer at a U.S. business, and it
  launched the era of business data processing.

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1956 - Eisenhower elected president
Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog"
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2nd Generation, 1956 1965, transistors
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Second Generation transistors1956 - 1965
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1963
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1960s from Mainframes to MiniComputers
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3rd Generation, 1965 1975, Integrated Circuits

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IBM 360
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1969 Official Birth of the Internet
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Nixon-Presley Meeting, December 21, 1970
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4th Generation, 1975 microcomputers
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First microprocessor
Ted Hoff Intels 12th employee
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1971 Intel 4004 The First Microprocessor on the
Market

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1974

• Intel 8008 chip is released
• Sold to Ed Roberts for 75.00/piece

Intels 8008 chip is used in Roberts Altair 880
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Bill Gates at the World Altair Computer
Convention, 1976.
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Steve Wozniak 1974
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Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
The first Apple computer, built in Steve Jobs'
garage
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Apple II 1977
Apple II
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1976
Jack Tramiel produces the first computer,
PET Commodore at a price of 599.-.
PET Personal Electronic Transactor
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1990 Windows 3.0
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Question 1The first computers were built during

• WWI
• WWII
• Korean War
• Vietnam War

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Question 2 For the first moon landing in 1969
the astronauts had on board a computer which used

• Vacuum tubes
• Integrated circuits
• Microprocessors
• There were no computers on board

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Question 3 May 23rd, 1980, Mt. St. Helen
EruptsWhich computer was not yet available?

• Apple
• IBM PC
• Commodore
• Altair 8800