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Applications to ICT

BS Mechanical
IIU Islamabad
Lecture # 1:
Introduction to Computer & History
Today’s Lecture

 Introduction to Computer
 Some early age machines
 First computer programmer
What is Computer?

 Computer is a machine that takes input,


processes it and gives the output.
 A computer can do nothing by itself, but once
it is told how to do a job, it does it much faster
than a human being.
History
 The word computer was first recorded in
1613 to refer to a person who carried out
calculations
 From the end of the 19th century the word
began to describe a machine that carries out
computations
 150–100 BC
 Early mechanical calculating devices include the
'abacus', the 'slide rule' the 'astrolabe' and the
'Antikythera mechanism'
History
 Al-Jazari’s ‘Castle Clock’
 The "castle clock", an astronomical clock invented by Al-
Jazari in 1206, is considered to be the earliest
programmable analog computer.
 It displayed a crescent moon-shaped pointer traveling
across a gateway causing automatic doors to open every
hour, and five robotic musicians who played music when
struck by levers operated by a camshaft attached to a
water wheel.
 The length of day and night could be re-programmed to
compensate for the changing lengths of day and night
throughout the year.
History
 Wilhelm Schickard’s Mechanical Calculator
 Wilhelm Schickard's 1623 device was the first of a number
of mechanical calculators constructed by European
engineers, but none fit the modern definition of a computer,
because they could not be programmed.
 Jacquard’s loom (Fabric Weaving Machine)
 In 1801, Joseph Marie Jacquard made an improvement to
the textile loom by introducing a series of punched paper
cards as a template which allowed his loom to weave
intricate patterns automatically.
 The use of punched cards to define woven patterns can be
viewed as an early, limited form of programmability.
History

 Babbage’s “Analytical Engine”


 In 1837, Charles Babbage was the first to design
a fully programmable mechanical computer, his
analytical engine.
 Babbage’s Design could never complete because
of his Limited finances and Babbage's inability to
resist tinkering with the design.
History

 Herman Hollerith (Tabulator & Key Punch


Machines)
 In the late 1880s Herman Hollerith invented the
recording of data on a machine readable medium,
the punch cards (first he tried the paper tape).
 Prior uses of machine readable media had been
for control, not data.
 To process these punched cards he invented the
tabulator, and the key punch machines
History
 These three inventions (punch cards, tabulator &
Key Punch machine) were the foundation of the
modern information processing industry
 Large-scale automated data processing of
punched cards was performed for the 1890 United
States Census by Hollerith's company, which later
became the core of IBM
History

 Ada Byron’s computer program


 1800s, Ada Byron, 19, English Mathematician
 Wrote first program in the history of Computers
 Wrote the program for the still unbuilt Analytic
Engine
 Recognized the importance of looping
History

 The Turing Machine

 Alan Turing is widely regarded to be the father of


modern computer science.
 In 1936 Turing provided an influential
formalization of the concept of the algorithm and
computation with the Turing machine
History

 Stibitz’s Model K
 George Stibitz is internationally recognized as a
father of the modern digital computer
 At Bell Labs in November 1937, Stibitz invented
and built a relay-based calculator which he named
as the "Model K" (for "kitchen table", on which he
had assembled it)
 It was the first to use binary circuits to perform an
arithmetic operation
Characteristics of some early
Digital Computers
 Zuse Z3 (Germany)
 May 1941
 Used Binary Number System
 Computing Mechanism was Electro-Mechanical
 Program-controlled by punched film stock
Characteristics of some early
Digital Computers
 Atanasoff–Berry Computer (US)
 1942
 Used Binary Number System
 Computing Mechanism was Electronic
 Not Programmable (Single Purpose)
Characteristics of some early
Digital Computers
 Colossus Mark 1 (UK)
 February 1944
 Used Binary Number System
 Computing Mechanism was Electronic
 Program-controlled by patch cables and switches
Characteristics of some early
Digital Computers
 Harvard Mark I – IBM ASCC (US)
 May 1944
 Used Decimal Number System
 Computing Mechanism was Electro-Mechanical
 Program-controlled by 24-channel punched paper
tape
Characteristics of some early
Digital Computers
 Colossus Mark 2 (UK)
 June 1944
 Used Binary Number System
 Computing Mechanism was Electronic
 Program-controlled by patch cables and switches
Characteristics of some early
Digital Computers
 ENIAC (US)
 July 1946
 Used Decimal Number System
 Computing Mechanism was Electronic
 Program-controlled by patch cables and switches
Characteristics of some early
Digital Computers
 Manchester Small-Scale Experimental
Machine (UK)
 June 1948
 Used Binary Number System
 Computing Mechanism was Electronic
 Stored-program in Williams cathode ray tube
memory
Characteristics of some early
Digital Computers
 Modified ENIAC (US)
 September 1948
 Used Decimal Number System
 Computing Mechanism was Electronic
 Program-controlled by patch cables and switches
plus a primitive read-only stored programming
mechanism using the Function Tables as program
ROM
Characteristics of some early
Digital Computers
 EDSAC (UK)
 May 1949
 Used Binary Number System
 Computing Mechanism was Electronic
 Stored-program in mercury delay line memory
Characteristics of some early
Digital Computers
 Manchester Mark 1 (UK)
 October 1949
 Used Binary Number System
 Computing Mechanism was Electronic
 Stored-program in Williams cathode ray tube
memory and magnetic drum memory
Characteristics of some early
Digital Computers
 CSIRAC (Australia)
 November 1949
 Used Binary Number System
 Computing Mechanism was Electronic
 Stored-program in mercury delay line memory

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