generations of computers

  • Fortran IV

    Fortran IV
    Fortran IV: Fortran is a high-level programming language of general purpose, procedural and imperative, that is specially adapted to numerical calculation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IBM in 1957 for the IBM 704 team, and used for scientific and engineering applications
  • Cobol

    Cobol
    The COBOL language (an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language) was created in 1959 with the aim of creating a universal programming language that could be used on any computer (since in the 1960s existed computer models incompatible with each other), and which were mainly oriented to business, i.e. so-called management computing.
  • Basic

    Basic
    BASIC, an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is a family of high-level programming languages.
  • Seymour Cray

    Seymour  Cray
    The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed by a large number of computer scientists headed by Seymour Cray for Cray Research. It is one of the best known and most successful supercomputers in history, and one of the most powerful in its time.
    As technical characteristics, the first version operated with 80 MHz vector processors, was a 64-bit system and weighed 5.5 tons, including the Freon cooling system; despite its large size it only had 8 MB of Ram.
  • Vint Cerf

    Vint Cerf
    The TCP / IP model is used for communications in networks and, like any protocol, describes a set of general operating guides to allow a device to communicate in a network. TCP / IP provides end-to-end connectivity by specifying how data should be formatted, addressed, transmitted, routed and received by the recipient.
  • MITS

    MITS
    Altair 8800=1er microordenador personal. The Altair also appealed to people and companies that only wanted a computer and presented an already assembled version. Today, Altair is widely recognized as the spark that led to the personal computer revolution during the following years: The computer bus designed for the Altair became a de facto standard known as the S-100 bus.
  • Bill Gates y Paul Allen

    Bill Gates y Paul Allen
    Paull Allen and Bill Gates, two young people passionate about technology, believe that personal computing can become the future and on April 4 create a small company called Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His vision begins with a very clear path: to change the way we worked and provide each desk and home with a computer equipment.
  • Steve Jobs y Steve Wozniac

    Steve Jobs y Steve Wozniac
    Apple Computer, Inc: The Apple I was one of the first personal computers, and the first to combine a microprocessor with a connection for a keyboard and a monitor. It was designed and handmade by Steve Wozniak1 2 originally for personal use. A friend of Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, had the idea of ​​selling the computer. It was Apple's first product, demonstrated on April 1, 1976 at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California.
  • Steve Wozniak

    Steve Wozniak
    2º ordenador personal: The Apple II family of computers was the first series of mass-produced microcomputers made by the Apple Computer company between June 5, 1977 and the mid-1980s. The Apple II had an 8-bit architecture based on the 6502 processor. It was completely different from the later Apple Macintosh models. Like the Apple I, the Apple II was designed by Steve Wozniak.
  • Sophie Wilson

    Sophie Wilson
    BASIC, an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, 1 symbolic code of general purpose instructions for beginners in Spanish), is a family of high-level programming languages. Used to facilitate computer programming for students (and teachers) who were not sciences. At that time, almost all the use of computers required coding custom-made software, which was restricted to people with training as scientists and mathematicians.
  • IBM

    IBM
    PC compatible: These computers, also called clone PCs, IBM clones or clones, are so named because they almost duplicate exactly all the important features of the PC architecture, which is facilitated by the possibility of legally performing reverse engineering of the BIOS through clean room design by Several companies Columbia Data Products built the first clone of an IBM PC through a clean-room BIOS implementation.
  • 1ª impresora láser en blanco y negro

    1ª impresora láser en blanco y negro
    Invented by Gary Starkweather during the 1973 decade and first marketed in 1977.1 the printing device consists of a photoconductor drum attached to a toner container and a laser beam that is modulated and projected through a specular disc towards The photoconductor drum.
  • 1ª tarjeta de video

    1ª tarjeta de video
    The first graphics card was developed by IBM in 1981, known as MDA (Monochrome Display Adapter), worked in text mode and was able to represent 25 lines of 80 characters on the screen; it had a 4 Kb video RAM, so it could only work with a memory page.
  • 1ª definición de Internet

    1ª definición de Internet
    The Internet is a network of networks that allows the decentralized interconnection of computers through a set of protocols called TCP / IP. It had its origins in 1969, when an agency of the Department of Defense of the United States began to look for alternatives to an eventual atomic war that could confuse people.
  • Intel

    Intel
    8086=1er PC con microprocesador Intel: The Intel 8086 and the (i8086, officially called iAPX 86) are the first 16-bit microprocessors designed by Intel. It was the beginning and of the first members of the x86 architecture. Development work for 8086 began in the spring of 1976 and was launched in the summer of 1978.
  • Microsoft

    Microsoft
    Sistema operativo MS-DOS: MS-DOS (acronym for MicroSoft Disk Operating System, Microsoft Disk Operating System) was the most popularly known member of the Microsoft DOS operating system family, and the main personal computer system compatible with IBM PC in the 1980s and the mid-1990s, until it was gradually replaced by operating systems that offered a graphical user interface, particularly by several generations of Microsoft Windows.
  • Lisa de Apple

    Lisa de Apple
    First computer with graphical user. Graphical User Interface understood as the use of icons and a pointing device to control a computer, covers a framework of five decades of incremental refinements, built on some constant basic principles.
  • Rick Mascitti James Gosling

    Rick Mascitti   James Gosling
    C ++ is a programming language designed in 1979 by Bjarne Stroustrup. The intention of its creation was to extend to the programming language C mechanisms that allow the manipulation of objects. In that sense, from the point of view of object-oriented languages, C ++ is a hybrid language.
  • Sony y Philips

    Sony y Philips
    A CD-ROM (acronym for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory) is a compact disc with which laser beams are used to read information in digital format. The standard CD-ROM was established in 1985 by Sony and Philips.
  • sistemas operativos gráfico Windows 1.0

    sistemas operativos gráfico Windows 1.0
    Windows 1.0 was the first 16-bit graphic operating system developed by Microsoft and launched on November 20, 1985, being one of the first graphic systems designed. It was Microsoft's first attempt to implement a massive operating environment with a graphical user interface on the PC platform. Windows 1.01 was the first version of this product. It cost $ 99 and a computer with a minimum of 256 kb of RAM, a graphics card and two floppy disk drives was required.
  • Creative Labs

    Creative Labs
    1ª tarjeta de sonido Sound Blaster. The Sound Blaster family of sound cards has for many years been the de facto standard for audio from IBM compatible PCs, before PC audio became common. The creator of Sound Blaster is a Singapore company called Creative Technology, also known by the name of its satellite company in the United States, Creative Labs.
  • Java

    Java
    Java is a programming language and computer platform first marketed in 1995 by Sun Microsystems. There are many applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed and more are created every day. Java is fast, safe and reliable.
  • Tim Berners-Lee

    Tim Berners-Lee
    In computer science, the World Wide Web or global computer network is a system of distribution of hypertext or hypermedia documents interconnected and accessible through the Internet.
  • Pentium

    Pentium
    Intel Pentium is a range of fifth-generation microprocessors with x86 architecture produced by Intel Corporation.The first Pentium was launched on March 22, 1993.1 with initial speeds of 60 and 66 MHz, 3,100,000 transistors, internal cache of 8 KiB for data and 8 KiB for instructions; succeeding the Intel 80486 processor. Intel did not call it 586 because it is not possible to register a mark composed only of numbers.