The Computer History Museum 

Exhibits 

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Cable Design Element Mechanical Calculators
  • Blaise Pascal : Pascaline Calculator (1642)
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Leibniz Wheel (1673)
Mechanical Calculators, Room 1Mechanical Calculators, Room 2Mechanical Calculators, Room 3
  Mechanical Calculators, Room 4Mechanical Calculators, Room 5
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Cable Design Element First Data Storage 
  • Jacques de Vaucanson: Loom using punched cards (1740)
  • Joseph Marie Jacquard: Jacquard's loom (1804)
First Data Storage, Room 1 First Data Storage, Room 2
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Cable Design Element Early Calculating Machines

Charles Babbage 

  • The Difference Engine #1 (1832)
  • The Difference Engine #2 (1852)
  • The Analytical Engine (developed by his son in 1910)
Early Calculating Machines, Room 1Early Calculating Machines, Room 2Early Calculating Machines, Room 3
  Early Calculating Machines, Room 4Early Calculating Machines, Room 5Early Calculating Machines, Room 6
 
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Cable Design Element Punched Cards

Herman Hollerith 

  • Early Card Reader (1888)
  • Automatic Card Reader (1930s)
Punched Cards, Room 1Punched Cards, Room 2Punched Cards, Room 3
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Cable Design Element The Vacuum Tube
  • Thomas Eidison: Light Bulb (1884)
  • John Fleming: Valve (1904)
  • Lee DeForest: Audion Tube (1906)
The Vacuum Tube, Room 1The Vacuum Tube, Room 2The Vacuum Tube, Room 3
  The Vacuum Tube, Room 4The Vacuum Tube, Room 5The Vacuum Tube, Room 6
  The Vacuum Tube, Room 7
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 Cable Design Element Differential Analyzer
  • William Thomson (Lord Kelvin): Tide Predictor (1876)
  • Vannevar Bush: The MIT Differential Analyzer (1930)
Differential Analyzer, Room 1
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 Cable Design Element Electromechanical Computers 
  • Howard Aiken: The Harvard/IBM Mark I (1943) 
Electromechanical Computers, Room 1
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Cable Design Element  World War II Technology 
  • The German Navy: The Enigma Machine (1935)
  • Konrad Zuse: The Z1 and Z2 (1936)
  • The British Secret Service: The Colossus Machine (1939)
  • John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert: The ENIAC (1946)
World War II Technology, Room 1World War II Technology, Room 2World War II Technology, Room 3
  World War II Technology, Room 4World War II Technology, Room 5World War II Technology, Room 6
 

 
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 Cable Design Element Early Computers 
  • Maurice Wilkes: First working stored program computer (1949)
  • John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, and John Von Neumann: The EDVAC (1951)
  • Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company: The Remington UNIVAC I(1951)
Early Computers, Room 1
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Cable Design Element  IBM
  • The IBM 701 (1952)
  • The IBM 650 (1953)

 
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 Cable Design Element The Transistor
  • John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brittain:
    The First Transistor (1946)
  • IBM: The IBM 7090 (used by US Air Force for early warning system) (1959)
  • Sperry-Rand: The UNIVAC III (1962)
  • IBM: System/360 (five different models) (1964)
The Transistor, Room 1The Transistor, Room 2The Transistor, Room 3
  The Transistor, Room 4The Transistor, Room 5
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Cable Design Element  The First Small Computers  
  • PDP-1 (1960) and PDP-8 (1966)
  • Digital Equipment Corporation: VT-52 Terminals (c.1975)
The First Small Computers, Room 1The First Small Computers, Room 2
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Cable Design Element  The Integrated Circuit
  • Jack Kilby: Issued a patent covering the basic integrated circuit (1958)
  • Robert Noyce: Patented a method to interconnect the components on a chip (1958)
  • Intel: The first microprocessor chip, the Intel 4004 (1971)
  • Intel: The Intel 8080 (1974)
The Integrated Circuit, Room 1
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Cable Design Element   The Early Internet
Information about Early Internet here
The Early Internet, Room 1The Early Internet, Room 2

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 Cable Design Element Early Personal Computers
  • Ed Roberts: MITS Altair computer (1974)
  • Bill Millard: IMSAI 8080 (1974)
  • Radio Shack: TRS-80 (1977)
  • Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs: The Apple I and II Computer (1976)
Early Personal Computers, Room 1Early Personal Computers, Room 2Early Personal Computers, Room 3
 

Early Personal Computers, Room 4Early Personal Computers, Room 5
 
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 Cable Design Element The IBM Personal Computer
  • Operating systems: CP/M-86 and PC-DOS  (1981)
The IBM Personal Computer, Room 1The IBM Personal Computer, Room 2
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Cable Design Element   Software and Operating Systems
  • UNIX (1969)
  • Microsoft Basic (1974)
  • Microsoft Basic for Apple (1977)
  • Visicalc (1979)
  • WordStar (1979)
  • FORTRAN and COBOL included with the IBM PC (1981)
  • Lotus 1-2-3 (1982)
Software & Operating Systems, Room 1Software & Operating Systems, Room 2Software & Operating Systems, Room 3
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Cable Design Element Microsoft Windows
  • MS-Windows (1983)
  • Windows 3.0 (1990)
  • Windows '95 (1995)
    • Microsoft Windows, Room 1Microsoft Windows, Room 2Microsoft Windows, Room 3
      Microsoft Windows, Room 4Microsoft Windows, Room 5Microsoft Windows, Room 6
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    Cable Design Element
    		The Macintosh Computer
    • Precursor to the Mac: The Lisa (1983)
    • The Macintosh 128 (1984)
    • The Macintosh II (1987)
    • The PowerMac
    The Macintosh Computer, Room 1The Macintosh Computer, Room 2The Macintosh Computer, Room 3
      The Macintosh Computer, Room 4The Macintosh Computer, Room 5The Macintosh Computer, Room 6
     
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    Cable Design Element COMPAQ Computers
    Information about COMPAQ here
    COM{AQ Computers, Room 1
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    Cable Design Element  Laptop Computers
    Information about laptops here
    Laptop Computers, Room 1Laptop Computers, Room 2
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     Cable Design Element  The World Wide Web

    World-Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee developer (1991)

    The term "surfing the Internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly (1992)

    Browsers:
    Marc Andreesen and a group of student programmers at NCSA develop Mosaic (1993)
    Netscape Navigator
    Internet Explorer

    World Wide Web, Room 1World Wide Web, Room 2World Wide Web, Room 3
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    		 Women and Computers
    Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852)
    Edith Clarke (1883-1959)
    Rósa Péter (1905-1977)
    Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992)
    Alexandra Illmer Forsythe (1918-1980)     
    Women in Computers, Room 1
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    Cable Design Element
    		  Texas Instruments
     Information about TI here
    Texas Instruments, Room 1Texas Instruments, Room 2
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    The History of Computer Virus
     Information about the History of Computer Virus here
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    		History of computers in the modern workplace
    Information about the History of Computer
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