Notes on Computing History

	Brikkevev (Bronze Age)

Industial Age
	Card Loom 1800
	Luddites 1811
	Babbage 1823-33
	   Astronomi (navigasjon og tidevann)
           Kelvin Tide Predictor

1890
	Hollerith  (census) 1890
	

1900
	Calculators (1890)
	   Men 21-30
	   Business (communication + calculation)
	      Burroughs
	   Astronomy
	   Weather (Vilhelm Bjerknes)  1900

1910
	War
	  First industrial war
	  Logistic (measuring man)
	  Assembly lines (Ford 1913)
	  Calculation	   
	    Ballistics
	  
	Automata
	  Guidance (gyroscopes)
	  Spill
	    Chess machines
	    Chess Torres and Weiner

	Statistic
	  Nation states
	     Census (political power and taxes)
	
1920
	Networked calculators
	  IBM
	  Jordbruk


1930
	Roboter (underholdning og frykt)
	  Metropolis (Fritz Lang)  (local clip)
	  The Machine Stops (E.M. Forster)
	  Modern Luddites
	  The Depression
	Social Security Act 1935 FDR Punch cards

	Bush Analyzer 1930
	Turing Machine 1936 (Java simulator)

1940
	War
	ENIAC 1943 (planning)
	Ballistics
	Grace Hopper (COBOL)
	John von Neumann 1945
	Claude Shannon 1948
	Bell Labs Transistor 1947
	Cryptography
	Whirlwind (SAGE) 1951
	UNIVAC, SEAC
	Vannevar Bush "As We May Think"  MEMEX 1945

1960
	NASA (ingrated circuits) 1960
	SABRE (Airlines) 1964
	Doug Engelbart (SRI)
	  "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" 1962
	  Personal workstation
	  Hypertext
	  Mouse (pat 1970)
	  Videoconferencing 1967
                  Bootstrap institute
                J. Licklider "Man-Computer Symbiosis." 1960
	ARPA 
	  Robert Taylor
	  ARPANET
	  RFC

1970-1980
	ARPANET
	  UCLA - Stanford (SRI) Dec 1969
	  Kjeller 1972, Tanum and UCLondon 1973
	  TCP/IP 1977
	world.std.com 1989

	microprocessor 1971
	MicroComputer 
	  ALTAIR (INTEL 8080) 1975
	  Z80
	  Apple I 1976
	  IBM PC 1981
	  Macintosh 1984

                 Steward Brand / Howard Rheingold

	GPS 1978

1990
	PDA
	  Newton Messagepad 1993

	GSM (1982) 1990
	  Radiolinja (Elisa Oyj.)





Based on:

@book{Eames1973,
	Address = {Cambridge, Mass},
	Author = {The office of Charles and Ray Eames},
	Date-Added = {2004-12-07 10:50:47 -0600},
	Date-Modified = {2004-12-26 21:59:28 -0600},
	Edition = {I},
	Keywords = {computer history,design},
	Publisher = {Harvard University Press},
	Title = {A computer perspective : background to the computer age},
	Year = {1973}}