A
ABACUS
Originally from china, a device using beads used in complex arithmetic to
keep track of where the totals are at a given time.
AMD
AMD is the second largest maker of personal computer microprocessors after
Intel.
Its Athlon (formerly called the K7) microprocessor, delivered in mid-1999,
was the the first to support a 200 MHz bus. In March, 2000, AMD announced
the first 1 GHz PC microprocessor in a new version of the Athlon.
ANALYTICAL ENGINE
An unfinished mechanical device designed by Charles Babbage that depicted
most of the elements in the present day computer.
APPLE
Apple Computer, Inc. is a prominent hardware and software company best known
for its Macintosh series of personal computers. Introduced in 1984
APPLE II
Part of the first series of microcomputers made by Apple Computer, in the
late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s. Completely different from Apple's later
Macintosh computers, the Apple II was a predominantly 8-bit architecture
B
BLAISE PASCAL
A French mathematician credited with pioneering progress in arithmetic,
some of which lead to the birth of the computer.
BLUE -GENE
The world’s fastest present day supercomputer created by IBM as of
September 2004.
COMPUTERS THROUGH THE COMPUTER AGE
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