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Overview of Digital Technology Evolution

The document provides an overview of the history and development of digital technology and computers. It discusses the evolution from vacuum tubes to transistors to integrated circuits. It describes the development of early mainframe computers in the 1940s-1950s and the rise of personal computers starting in the 1970s. It also summarizes the development of computer software, programming languages, operating systems, and application software.

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Overview of Digital Technology Evolution

The document provides an overview of the history and development of digital technology and computers. It discusses the evolution from vacuum tubes to transistors to integrated circuits. It describes the development of early mainframe computers in the 1940s-1950s and the rise of personal computers starting in the 1970s. It also summarizes the development of computer software, programming languages, operating systems, and application software.

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Lecture 2 / Chapter 1

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Any questions?
Everyone is clear about the lab assignment?

Reading Materials:
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Well-informed people know its IMPOSSIBLE


to transmit voice over wires and that were it
possible to do so, the thing would be of NO
practical value.

General Items:
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Read 52 -65

Miscellaneous:
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Boston Post , 1865, quote from an article


concerning the arrest of a man who had been
attempting to raise funds for work on a
telephone

My recommendation to the [patent] office is


that everything that CAN be invented HAS
been invented!
The Commissioner of the United States Office
of Patents , 1899, recommendation to abolish his
office

I dont really foresee any commercial


possibilities for COMPUTERS and I predict a
world market for maybe FIVE computers!
Thomas Watson, 1940, Cha irman of IBM

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Digital Technology
Computer Technology

Hardware

Software

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Processors:
4 Generations
(Size, Speed)

Application
Software

DAC (Digital to analog Converter)

System Software
- OS

Digital
World!

(Analog)
ADC (Analog to digital Converter)

Programming
Languages
- FORTRAN
- COBOL
- BASIC

Miscellaneous:
Printers
Modem
Wireless mouse!
Much more.

Voice/
Music

MP3

Pictures/
Images

MPEG

Integrated
Circuits
Computer
Networks

Communication D evices
- Faster modems
- Wireless cards
- WiFi

Large -Scale
Integrated
Circ uits

Integration
Level

Vacuum
Tube

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Digital technology
? Data representation
? Analog
? Digital (0,1)
? The real world is ANALOG
? Digital technology is based on two states (ON/OFF)

Real
World!
Memory:
- Storage Devices
- Core Memory
(Size, Speed,
Capacity )

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Transistors

Transmission Technology
- Packet Switching
- Ethernet
- IP Technology
- Wireless
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Digital Technology Developments


----------------------------------------------------First came the Vacuum Tubes
? An integrated device (contains many components)
? Controlling electron current
? Expensive, unreliable, hot, and bulky
? They were used in first computers
? 1946: ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and
Computer)
? First large -scale general purpose digital computer
? Used 18,000 tubes, Consumed 160 KW, 30x50
Then came Transistors
? A semiconductor device (GaAs)
? Invented by Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley (1947,NJ)
? Revolutionized the digital technology
? 1951: UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic C omputer)
o First commercially available computer
o Correctly predicted the election results!
o Major step in public awareness
? 1953: IBM650 /700
o Development of the Core Memory
o Sold about 1000 units!
? 1957: IBM 305 (RAMAC)
o Using magnetic disk for external storage

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Later came Integrated Circuits


o Also called CHIPs
o Placing several million transistors on a piece of silicon
o The size of a fingertip
o Invented by Jack Kilby in 1958
o Start of the second generation computers
? High-speed computers
Advances in integrated circuits (1964)
o More controlling devices we re integrated on a single chip
o Mid-scale integration (1000 circuits on a single chip)
o Start of the third-generation computers
o 18,000 computers were around!
o Computers were being used by business people and scientists
Large-scale integration (1970)
o 15,000 circuits on a chip
o Computers were getting much smaller
o Smaller processors (1971-1976)
? Intel 4004 (microprocessor) programmable computer chip
? First Apple Computer was introduced
o Winchester Hard Drives (Developed by IBM)

How Much?

POINT B

POINT A
ELECTRICITY
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Personal Computers
Apple was there first (1976)
Then came IBM PCs
By 1982 there were 3 million PCs around
In 1982 IBM introduced AT version 80286 Intel Processor
In 1989 IBM marketed Intel 486 (1.2 million transistors on a single
chip)
Intel introduced Pentium chip (1993) with 3.1 million transistors
o Pentium II, III , IV (42 million transistors)

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Computer Hardware Examples


Hard Drive (Winchester 1970s)
Modem (Hayes 1982)
LaserJet Printers (HP 1984)
CDs and DVD Optical disc storage technology (1997)
Other Gadgets.
o Palm hand / e -book / Mobile PC (Supporting WiFi, BT)

Speed

o E- books / Tablet PC / PDA


Computers and the Society
1982 3 million people had computers
Today-there are 250,000,000 computers around
Computers are becoming a part of our daily lives
o E-commerce ($100 million a year, 5 mil. for advertising alone!)
o Internet (with annul growth of 700%)

Size
Power consumption
# of transistors
Architecture (32-bit)

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Computer Software
The key to computer development was its Programmability!
The basic questions:
o Where should we keep a program?
o How should we write a program?
o How should the program interact with the hardware?
Introducing Stored Program Concept (1945)
o The Memory should hold both programs and data (John
Neumann)
Introducing Reusable Software (1952)
o Programming computers with symbol notations (Grace Hopper)
o Generating a layer between the machine language and software
New programming languages (200 languages by 1958)
o FORTRAN (efficient, easy-to-use) - 1957
o COBOL (high-level, used for business people) 1960
o BASIC (Very easy, simple instructions) - 1965
o Structured Programming Dijskra 1968
o Object Oriented programming language

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Development of operating systems


o Apple OS
o MS-DOS used for IBM PCs
o MAC OS Using GUI interface 1984
o Windows 3.1 1992
o Another OS called Linux
o Window 95, 98, Me, XP
How many lines of codes?

What is the point of all these?


o Technology is a combined effort of thousands of minds!
o Changes in technology are very political!
o Lets try to be wise consumers!

NOT USED!
Application Software
o First Spreadsheet program for Apple (1979)
o Lotus 1-2-3 Editor, Spreadsheet, database programs
o MS Office becomes very popular
Windows being tested by 50,000 people, 10 million lines
MP: Moving Picture Expert Group Layer 3 (Layer 3 algorithm to
filter out the inaudible noise) compressed format
Semiconductor: Electrical conductor between metals and
insulators Silicon (IV group in the periodic table) - compounds
such as GaAs used in transistors.

Programming Language (high level)


Compiler
Machine Language (bits: 010100110)

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