Glossary

Inventors

Inventions

This book contains four parts. Under each part, there are three main points. Part One is about before the computers. The second part is abut creating the computer. It talks about how computers were invented, explaining the computers becoming businesses machine, and the rise and fall of IBM.

By the time you finish reading this book, you should have a better understanding of what the computers were for, how they were created, who created them, and more.

If you want to know why computers or calculators, which was first refered to, were created or how they got started, then you should read the first part of this book. In the first part, the computers were not existed yet, but it will you an introduction to the the first machines. Later on, people will go beyond those machines, then they will start creating computers. This first part gives you more information on Charles Babbage and his two machines--the differential machine and the analytical machine and other inventors and their machines.

Creating the Computer
• Inventing the Computer
• The Computer Becomes a business Machines
• The Maturing of the Mainframe: The Rise and Fall of IMB

Innovation and Expansion
• Real Time: Reaping the Winrlwind
• Software
• New Modes of Computer

Grading Chart

Approach

Objectives

Inventory Reflection

Getting Personal
• The Shaping of the Personal Computer
• The Shift Software
• From the World Brain to the World Wide Web

Sources

Cover Page

Foreword