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Abacus, early counting device
Abacus,
Roman form
Abacus,
Chinese form
Abax, primitive counting board
Algebra, derived from al jabr
meaning transposition, a term used firstly by AL-Kwarizmi
Algorithmic Unit, early
hint of processing data
Al-kwarizmi, the alghoritm
is called after him, het introduced the name algebra
Antiquity
Antikytherea
first reference
fact sheet
Aristotle, Greek phylosopher
B,
Ken Thompson develops the proto "C" called "B"
BBS, (1)
bulleting board system
Binairy Calculus,
method of doing arithmatic wit a binary system
Bones, tally bones
Boolean Algebra
Buerghi, Joost, logaritm
table
C, programming Language
C,
Ken Thompson develops the proto "C" called "B"
Calculator device,
the first one
Chess play, earliest reference
Copernicus, Niclaus
Counting, earliest forms
Compotystes, earliest reference
to the word computer
Computers,
earliest reference
Cuneiform, early recording of
counting
Databases
Relational
Database, IBM introduces the
Era's
Antiquity
Industrial Era I
Industrial Era II
Industrial Era III
Pre Historic Era
Pre Industrial Era
Eratosthenes,
seeve of; calculating prime numbers
Figures,
Indo Arabic
Floppy Disk, 8" by Opium
and IBM
Geometry, created
by Theaetetus
Geocentric system; a
second century's view on the world and the rest of the universe
Gitton, Bernard; creator
of a post modern waterclock
Heron of Aelexandria, invents the sequence control mechanism later used in calculators and "programmed" with the use of ropes
Industrial Era I
Industrial Era II
Industrial Era III
Logarithm
Joost Buergi,
logarithm table
natural
logarithm, Napier
Mechanical
Orchestra
Mechanical Clock, the
first one
Mechanical clocks
in Europe
Mirifici
Logarithmorum Canonus Descriptio, the canon of logarithm by Napier
Mithical Man Month, Fred brooks
wrote a paper on the mithical manmoth while being manager for the IBM 360 construction
Museums
Manor Museum
Napier,
mirifici
Logarithmorum Canonus Descriptio, the canon of logarithm by Napier
natural
logarithm
napier bones
rabdologica
Numbers and Figures
Operating Systems
Beos
DOS
Geos, commodore
Pink
OS, Apple operating systems
Unix,
first version developed on a PDP 7
Oracle, early "Artificial
Intelligence"
Pascal a, programming
language by Niclaus Wirth
Pendulum, invention by Leonardo
da Vinci
Pheedo, essay of Plato on machines
that could "think"
Plato, Greek philosopher
Pre Historic Era
Pre Industrial Era
Programming Languages
C,
Ken Thompson develops the proto "C" called "B"
Pascal a,
programming language by Niclaus Wirth
Quipa, south indo-american (Maya / Inca people) means to register quantities
Revolutionubus,
Copernicus tractatus about the earth is revolving around the sun and other natural
fenomena
Rabdologica, Rabdologiae,
sue Numertionis per Virgulas Libri duo, about logica and the Napier bones
Relational Database introduced
by IBM
Revolutionubus, about logarithm
Seeve
of Eratosthenes, calculating prime numbers
Sequence control,
a mechanisme to control events in a fixed sequence
Socrates, greek philosopher
Spinning wheel
Theaetetus, Greek
philosopher creates geometry
Torres, L; a formal language to
describe machines
Torriano, Gianello;
creator of a mechanical mandolin playing lady, one of a kind
Trevisa, first reference to the
term computer: "compotytes"
Unix, first version developed on a PDP 7
Waterclocks,
early and late forms of water driven clocks
Egyptian waterclock
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