Transcription of The Technological Edge: Electronics 31 Putting It …
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HISTORY OF COMPUTERS. AND THE INTERNET. OUTLINE. 1B. MODULE Steps Toward Modern Computing 31. First Steps: Calculators 31. The Technological Edge: Electronics 31. Putting It All Together: The ENIAC 36. The Stored-Program Concept 36. The Computer's Family Tree 37. The First Generation (1950s) 37. The Second Generation (Early 1960s) 38. The Third Generation (Mid-1960s to Mid-1970s) 39. The Fourth Generation (1975 to the Present) 41. A Fifth Generation? 44. The Internet Revolution 45. Lessons Learned 48. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN .. After reading this module, you will be able to: 1. Define the term Electronics and describe some early electronic devices that helped launch the computer industry.
What would the world be like if the British had lost to Napoleon in the bat-tle of Waterloo, or if the Japanese had won World War II? In The Difference Engine, authors William Gibson and Bruce Sterling ask a similar question: What would have happened if nineteenth-century inventor Charles Babbage
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