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Introduction to Humanities Computing
Spring 1999
Lecture Three
Introduction to Humanities Computing
François Lachance
416 326-2524 (o)
TSH 205 (drop off)
[email protected]
Acronym Acrobatics
 ASCII
chunk
 HTTP/HTML
pair
 WIMP/GUI
question
 PCMCIA
invent
E-mail Pointers
 Address
your notes
 Sign your notes
 Give context
 Quoting other notes
Don’t quote too much
 Use
carriage returns
 Reread before sending
Francois
You asked:
> Have you done your
> homework? :-)
Yes, I have.
John Dogood
Parts of the Computer
 System
Unit
Motherboard
CPU (Central Processing Unit)
RAM
Hard Drive and Floppy Drive
Power Supply
Daughterboards
 Keyboard
 Monitor
 Peripherals
Review - Types of Storage
Storage
Permanent
Removable
Floppy
Temporary
RAM
Fixed
ROM
Hard Drive
CD-ROM
Magneto-Optical
Storage typically measured in
K (Kilobytes) or
MB (Megabytes)
Letters to bytes via bits
(8 Bits)
“A”
1 Byte
01000001
Laser
CD-ROM
Floppy Disk
Brief History of Computing
 Types
of Histories
 Babbage and Lovelace
 ENIAC
 Altair
 Apple
 IBM PC
Types of Histories
 Mathematics
Business
 Calculating
Machines
 Business Processes
 Electronics - Transistors
 Media (Art and Cinema)
 People and Companies
 Humanities Computing
al-Kharazmi
Alan Turing
Babbage and Lovelace
 Charles
Babbage (1791-1871)
 Difference Engine
 1834 Analytical Engine
Programmable (Cards)
Mechanical
 Ada
Lovelace
Babbage and Lovelace
Bruce Sterling & William Gibson
The Difference Engine
Sadie Plant
Zeros + Ones
ENIAC
 Mauchly
and Eckert - 1943 proposal to
Army
 ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator
and Computer) working in 1945 (after the
war)
 von Neumann - EDVAC
 Transistor invented in 1947
 ICs - Integrated Circuits
Printer
ENIAC Pictures
Programming with switches
Engineers
The initiating and cycling units of ENIAC
Altair - the Microcomputer
 Intel
4004 Microprocessor 1969
 MITS - Altair
 Uses the Intel 8080
 Cover of Popular Electronics Jan. 1975
 MITS hires Allen (and Gates)
 1973 Kildall creates CP/M
Apple
 Steve
Wozniak (the Woz)
 Steven Jobs
 Homebrew Computer Club
 Apple I - MOS 6502 chip
 1976 Mike Markkula bought in
 1977 the Apple II
 1984 the Macintosh
IBM PC
 Built
on the Intel 8088
 Operating System from Microsoft (and others)
 Put together with existing components
 Open to cards and software
 Released in 1981
An IBM Clone
Key Innovations
 Calculating
device
 General Purpose Device - Programmability
 Digital Device
 Electrical Device
 Integrated Circuits - Transistors
 Interface from Commands to GUI
 Multiuser/Shared Computer to Personal
Computer
Histories
 Computer
Journalism
 The Media’s Fascination
 Science Fiction
 Computer Clubs
 Academic Computing
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