About this deck
Charles Babbage designed a mechanical, general-purpose computer with a "mill" (CPU), "store" (memory), and punched-card input — over a century before the electronic computer. Key sections include: COMPUTING; BABBAGE'S ANALYTICAL ENGINE; TURING'S UNIVERSAL MACHINE; ENIAC & THE STORED PROGRAM; THE TRANSISTOR; FORTRAN — A LANGUAGE FOR HUMANS; UNIX & THE C LANGUAGE; INTEL 4004 — A CPU ON A CHIP; THE PERSONAL COMPUTER; THE WORLD WIDE WEB.
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