The 3 cultural influences that spurred the development of computers is the immigrants migrating to America. The World War II, and the Japanese trying to attack. The last is the United States trying to crack the German Code. The first interface that was use was a large calculating device. Today we use the conjure processor.
- ASCII White- a huge computer
- Charles Babbage- inventor of the first computer “father of the computer”
- Herman Hollerith- inventor of the second computer
- Colossus- a computer-like machine made to break the German Code
- Mowchley and Erkert- inventors of the electronic numeric computer
- John Von Newman-wrote a paper describing what the next computer should be like and how it should work
- IBM- replaced the huge computers with smaller ones
- Kilby and Noyce- inventors of the interpreted circuit
- Ted Hoff- inventor of the micro-processor
- Douglas Engelbart- invented the mouse and keyboard
- xerox- the smallest computer in the 60’s
- Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs- invented the Apple 1 and 2 and software
- Bill Gates- owner of Microsoft
