About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 125. Chapters: Microprocessor, Punched card, Analog computer, Dynamic random-access memory, Laser printer, Atanasoff-Berry Computer, Tape drive, Williams tube, Ad Lib, Inc., History of personal computers, History of general purpose CPUs, Early IBM disk storage, Differential analyser, History of laptops, 1984, Magnetic tape data storage, History of the Amiga, Influence of the IBM PC on the personal computer market, History of hard disk drives, Moore School Lectures, Arthur Pollen, 9 track tape, Stochastic computing, History of computer hardware in Soviet Bloc countries, History of computer hardware in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Microcomputer revolution, 74181, Microprocessor development board, Timeline of portable computers, Cromemco Dazzler, Twistor memory, Traitorous Eight, IBM 7 track, MicroAngelo, Digital Differential Analyzer, Grid Compass, Coincidence circuit, VRAM, Epson HX-20, SUN workstation, GRiD Systems Corporation, Gavilan SC, Blit, Lehmer sieve, Compaq LTE, Outbound Laptop, 3M computer, VP8 Image Analyzer, Castle clock, WaveMate Bullet, Marconi Myriad, Xerox NoteTaker, Swedish Board for Computing Machinery, Disk pack, Sharp PC-5000, NEC UltraLite, SGI Crimson, Compaq Concerto, Grid GridCase 1535EXP, Zapple Monitor, Magnetic Drum Digital Differential Analyzer. Excerpt: The history of computing hardware is the record of the ongoing effort to make computer hardware faster, cheaper, and capable of storing more data. Computing hardware evolved from machines that needed separate manual action to perform each arithmetic operation, to punched card machines, and then to stored-program computers. The history of stored-program computers relates first to computer architecture, that is, the organization of the units to perform input and output, to store data and to operate as an integrated mechanism (see block d...
