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Main | Past | Present | Future | Interviews | Java | About Us Past 1642 - Blaise Pascal creates the first numerical Calculating machine 1822 - Charles Babbage designs the Difference Engine 1884 -Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his automatic punch card tabulator 1926 - Dr. Julius Lilienfield filed for a patent on a transistor being used as an amplifier 1939 - The first automatic digital computer is designed 1944 - The first large scale automatic computer, the Mark I, is completed 1946 - The ENIAC is created 1946 - EDVAC is designed 1954 - FORTRAN is created 1958 - The first integrated circuit is created 1964 - BASIC is created 1970 - Integrated circuits become widely used 1971- The world's first microprocessor was created 1974 - The first truly general purpose microprocessor is created 1975 - First Altair is sold 1981 - IBM launches its first PC Since 1982 - Internet Since 1982 - New Technology Since 1982 - Companies Main | Past | Present | Future | Interviews | Java | About Us Present Tutorial Tutorial Help Tutorial1 Tutorial2 Tutorial3 Tutorial4 Tutorial5 Tutorial6 Tutorial7 Tutorial8 Tutorial9 Tutorial10 Tutorial11 Tutorial12 Tutorial13 Tutorial14 Tutorial15 Tutorial16 Tutorial17 Tutorial18 Tutorial19 Tutorial20 Tutorial21 Tutorial22 Tutorial23 Tutorial24 Tutorial25 Tutorial26 Tutorial27 Tutorial28 Tutorial29 Tutorial30 Tutorial31 Tutorial32 Tutorial33 Tutorial34 Tutorial35 Tutorial36 Tutorial37 Tutorial38 Tutorial39 Tutorial40 Tutorial41 Tutorial42 Tutorial43 Tutorial44 Tutorial45 Tutorial46 Tutorial47 Tutorial48 Tutorial49 Tutorial50 Tutorial51 Tutorial52 Tutorial53 Tutorial54 Tutorial55 Tutorial56 Tutorial57 Tutorial58 Tutorial59 Tutorial60 Tutorial61 Tutorial62 Tutorial63 Tutorial64 Tutorial65 Tutorial66 Tutorial67 Tutorial68 Tutorial69 Tutorial70 Tutorial71 Tutorial72 Tutorial73 Tutorial74 Tutorial75 Tutorial76 Tutorial77 Tutorial78 Tutorial79 Tutorial80 Main | Past | Present | Future | Interviews | Java | About Us Breakdown Back Power Supply Keyboard Mouse USB Serial Port Printer or Parallel Port Video Card Sound or Game Card Modem Ethernet Card Slots Front Face CD-ROM Bays Floppy Drive Power Button The INNER Computer Power Supply The Back of the Computer Slots Reset Button Inner Power Supply CD-ROM Bays Floppy Drive Hard Drive Speaker Fan Cables Motherboard Motherboard CMOS Battery Ram Slots CPU Fan CPU I/O Ports AGP Slot PCI Slot ISA Slot Main | Past | Present | Future | Interviews | Java | About Us Topics Computer Interface Binary Binary to Decimal Decimal to Binary Other Bases Hexadecimal Octal Comparison Data Analog vs. Digital Bit Byte Kylobyte Megabyte Gigabyte ASCII BIOS OS / Operating System Multi-User MultiProcessing Multitasking Multithreading Real-time Motherboard CPU Math Coprocessor Clock Speed Internal Cache The Bus External Bus Data Bus Address Bus Expansion Bus Expansion Slot Interrupt Lines DMA channels I/O addresses Clock Signals Bus Mastering Expansion Slot/Card Types 8-Bit ISA MCA EISA VL-Bus / VESA / VLB PCI PC Card / PCMCIA Comparison AGP Peripherals Input devices Keyboards Mechanical Capacitive Comparison Mouse and/or Mice Opto-mechanical Optical Trackball Other Pointing Devices Touch Screens Touch Pad Finger Mouse Scanners Flatbed Hand-Held Feed Output Devices Display Devices Display Concepts / Technology MDA HGC CGA EGA VGA SVGA XGA Monitors CRT Quality Dot Pitch / Refresh Rate LCD Active Matrix Passive Matrix Submarine Effect
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Breakdown Back Power Supply Keyboard Mouse USB Serial Port Printer or Parallel Port Video Card Sound or Game Card Modem Ethernet Card Slots Front Face CD-ROM Bays Floppy Drive Power Button The INNER Computer Power Supply The Back of the Computer Slots Reset Button Inner Power Supply CD-ROM Bays Floppy Drive Hard Drive Speaker Fan Cables Motherboard Motherboard CMOS Battery Ram Slots CPU Fan CPU I/O Ports AGP Slot PCI Slot ISA Slot
Back Power Supply Keyboard Mouse USB Serial Port Printer or Parallel Port Video Card Sound or Game Card Modem Ethernet Card Slots Front Face CD-ROM Bays Floppy Drive Power Button The INNER Computer Power Supply The Back of the Computer Slots Reset Button Inner Power Supply CD-ROM Bays Floppy Drive Hard Drive Speaker Fan Cables Motherboard Motherboard CMOS Battery Ram Slots CPU Fan CPU I/O Ports AGP Slot PCI Slot ISA Slot
Power Supply Keyboard Mouse USB Serial Port Printer or Parallel Port Video Card Sound or Game Card Modem Ethernet Card Slots
CD-ROM Bays Floppy Drive Power Button The INNER Computer Power Supply The Back of the Computer Slots Reset Button
Power Supply CD-ROM Bays Floppy Drive Hard Drive Speaker Fan Cables Motherboard
CMOS Battery Ram Slots CPU Fan CPU I/O Ports AGP Slot PCI Slot ISA Slot
Topics Computer Interface Binary Binary to Decimal Decimal to Binary Other Bases Hexadecimal Octal Comparison Data Analog vs. Digital Bit Byte Kylobyte Megabyte Gigabyte ASCII BIOS OS / Operating System Multi-User MultiProcessing Multitasking Multithreading Real-time Motherboard CPU Math Coprocessor Clock Speed Internal Cache The Bus External Bus Data Bus Address Bus Expansion Bus Expansion Slot Interrupt Lines DMA channels I/O addresses Clock Signals Bus Mastering Expansion Slot/Card Types 8-Bit ISA MCA EISA VL-Bus / VESA / VLB PCI PC Card / PCMCIA Comparison AGP Peripherals Input devices Keyboards Mechanical Capacitive Comparison Mouse and/or Mice Opto-mechanical Optical Trackball Other Pointing Devices Touch Screens Touch Pad Finger Mouse Scanners Flatbed Hand-Held Feed Output Devices Display Devices Display Concepts / Technology MDA HGC CGA EGA VGA SVGA XGA Monitors CRT Quality Dot Pitch / Refresh Rate LCD Active Matrix Passive Matrix Submarine Effect
Computer Interface Binary Binary to Decimal Decimal to Binary Other Bases Hexadecimal Octal Comparison Data Analog vs. Digital Bit Byte Kylobyte Megabyte Gigabyte ASCII BIOS OS / Operating System Multi-User MultiProcessing Multitasking Multithreading Real-time Motherboard CPU Math Coprocessor Clock Speed Internal Cache The Bus External Bus Data Bus Address Bus Expansion Bus Expansion Slot Interrupt Lines DMA channels I/O addresses Clock Signals Bus Mastering Expansion Slot/Card Types 8-Bit ISA MCA EISA VL-Bus / VESA / VLB PCI PC Card / PCMCIA Comparison AGP Peripherals Input devices Keyboards Mechanical Capacitive Comparison Mouse and/or Mice Opto-mechanical Optical Trackball Other Pointing Devices Touch Screens Touch Pad Finger Mouse Scanners Flatbed Hand-Held Feed Output Devices Display Devices Display Concepts / Technology MDA HGC CGA EGA VGA SVGA XGA Monitors CRT Quality Dot Pitch / Refresh Rate LCD Active Matrix Passive Matrix Submarine Effect
Printers Impact Sprayed-Ink Electrophotographic Plotter Speakers Other Peripherals Sound Card FM synthesis Wavetable synthesis Modems Theory Analog Cable ISDN DSL Ethernet Card LAN Hub Storage Devices Hard Disks Controller Host Adapter CDROM Drives CDROM CDR CDRW Standards Red Book Yellow Book Green Book Orange Book Floppy Drives 3½" 5¼" Super Floppy Zip/Jaz Drives Tape Drives Optical Drives DVD drives Storage Media Hard Disk CD CDR CDRW Floppy 3½" Floppy 5¼" Zip Disk Tape Optical DVD Physical Memory Physical Memory Types SRAM DRAM EDO RAM ROM / CMOS PROM EPROM EEPROM Package Types DIP Wait States SIMM DIMM Key Words Chip Creep CMOS Battery Ram Speed Parity Checking Pins RAM Expansion Boards RAM Slots Specialized Memory Video RAM (VROM) Windows RAM (WRAM) Portable Memory Cache Memory Communication Interface Parallel Standard Parallel Bidirectional Parallel Enhanced Serial Serial Standard USB Cables IDE SCSI Ethernet PS/2 Parallel Speaker Wire Internal Power External Power Monitor Printer Connectors DB-n DIN-n RJ-n Centronics Power Supply Fan Systems Servers Personal MAC / PC Business Lease Designed for your needs On Board Connectors Blue Screen of Death Main | Past | Present | Future | Interviews | Java | About Us Future Computers in the Home The Appearance of the Home Connection to the World Controlling the Home Environment Computers in Business The Changing Workplace Computers in Factories Communication Product Promotion Computers in Schools The Computer of Tomorrow Free Software Free Computers The Future of Displays
Printers Impact Sprayed-Ink Electrophotographic Plotter Speakers Other Peripherals Sound Card FM synthesis Wavetable synthesis Modems Theory Analog Cable ISDN DSL Ethernet Card LAN Hub Storage Devices Hard Disks Controller Host Adapter CDROM Drives CDROM CDR CDRW Standards Red Book Yellow Book Green Book Orange Book Floppy Drives 3½" 5¼" Super Floppy Zip/Jaz Drives Tape Drives Optical Drives DVD drives Storage Media Hard Disk CD CDR CDRW Floppy 3½" Floppy 5¼" Zip Disk Tape Optical DVD Physical Memory Physical Memory Types SRAM DRAM EDO RAM ROM / CMOS PROM EPROM EEPROM Package Types DIP Wait States SIMM DIMM Key Words Chip Creep CMOS Battery Ram Speed Parity Checking Pins RAM Expansion Boards RAM Slots Specialized Memory Video RAM (VROM) Windows RAM (WRAM) Portable Memory Cache Memory Communication Interface Parallel Standard Parallel Bidirectional Parallel Enhanced Serial Serial Standard USB Cables IDE SCSI Ethernet PS/2 Parallel Speaker Wire Internal Power External Power Monitor Printer Connectors DB-n DIN-n RJ-n Centronics Power Supply Fan Systems Servers Personal MAC / PC Business Lease Designed for your needs On Board Connectors Blue Screen of Death Main | Past | Present | Future | Interviews | Java | About Us
Printers Impact Sprayed-Ink Electrophotographic Plotter Speakers Other Peripherals Sound Card FM synthesis Wavetable synthesis Modems Theory Analog Cable ISDN DSL Ethernet Card LAN Hub Storage Devices Hard Disks Controller Host Adapter CDROM Drives CDROM CDR CDRW Standards Red Book Yellow Book Green Book Orange Book Floppy Drives 3½" 5¼" Super Floppy Zip/Jaz Drives Tape Drives Optical Drives DVD drives Storage Media Hard Disk CD CDR CDRW Floppy 3½" Floppy 5¼" Zip Disk Tape Optical DVD Physical Memory Physical Memory Types SRAM DRAM EDO RAM ROM / CMOS PROM EPROM EEPROM Package Types DIP Wait States SIMM DIMM Key Words Chip Creep CMOS Battery Ram Speed Parity Checking Pins RAM Expansion Boards RAM Slots Specialized Memory Video RAM (VROM) Windows RAM (WRAM) Portable Memory Cache Memory Communication Interface Parallel Standard Parallel Bidirectional Parallel Enhanced Serial Serial Standard USB Cables IDE SCSI Ethernet PS/2 Parallel Speaker Wire Internal Power External Power Monitor Printer Connectors DB-n DIN-n RJ-n Centronics Power Supply Fan Systems Servers Personal MAC / PC Business Lease Designed for your needs On Board Connectors Blue Screen of Death
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