TOP 10 COMPUTER FACT PART :- 1.
TOP 10 COMPUTER HISTORY FACT
PART :- 1
TOP 10 INTERESTED COMPUTER HISTORY FACT
PUBLISHED BY :- TRT FACT TECH
TRT FACT TECHFACT NO :- 1
Alan Turing is considered the father of Computer Science, in 1937, he published the paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entsheidungsproblem".
FACT NO :- 2
Beginning in 1934, Konrad Zuse, a German engineer, built a series of computers, the Z1 through Z4, utilising binary arithmetic.
FACT NO :- 3
7 Claude Shannon is usually called the father of Information Technology. In 1948, he published "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" in the Bell System Technical Journal.
FACT NO :- 4
The first high-level programming language was Fortran. It was developed in 1956 by an IBM team headed by John Backus. Fortran became commercially available in 1957.
FACT NO :- 5
The first object-oriented language was Simula. It was developed by Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl in the mid 1960s.
FACT NO :- 6
1981 was the year that PCs began, when IBM debuted the IBM PC. Microsoft shipped it with BASIC. The operating system, too, was
developed by Microsoft.
FACT NO :- 7
The first 'computer', the steam-driven calculating machine, was built in 1823 by Charles Babbage.
FACT NO :- 8
Christopher Pile was sentenced to 18 months for releasing a toolkit that would boost the impact of existing viruses by randomi-
sing their codes.
FACT NO :- 9
In 1951, Jay Forrester and Robert Everett, graduate students at MIT, constructed
the ' Whirlwind,' a 'real-time computer,' working at twice the speed of the ENIAC.
FACT NO :- 10
In 1969, computer firm Honey well released the H316 "Kitchen Computer", the first home
computer, priced at $10,600