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a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by Charles Babbage in 1837, featuring a mill (CPU), store (memory), punch cards for programming, and a printer. -
an American inventor, statistician, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine using punched cards to process data. His innovations dramatically increased the speed of data processing and laid the groundwork for modern computing. The company he founded would later become International Business Machines (IBM). -
Hewlett-Packard (HP) was a pioneering American information technology company founded in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in a Palo Alto garage, the "Birthplace of Silicon Valley". In 2015, the company split into two separate, publicly traded entities -
a British mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, and philosopher, widely regarded as one of the founding figures of modern computing and artificial intelligence. -
COBOL or Common Business-Oriented Language, is a high-level programming language that was designed for commercial and administrative tasks. It was created in 1959 as a universal language for business data processing, and it remains a foundational element of the world's financial, government, and business infrastructure today. -
a form of user interface that allows people to interact with electronic devices through visual components. These include icons, buttons, menus, and windows, which replace the need to type complex text commands. -
The co-founders of Apple Inc., working on an early model of the Apple computer -
The first commercially successful version of Microsoft Windows -
a wireless networking technology that allows devices like smartphones, laptops, tablets, smart TVs, and more to connect to the internet or local networks without physical cables -
Apple's first multi touch screen smart phone. -
a laptop that runs Google's Chrome OS, designed for web-based tasks and cloud storage, with built-in security and automatic updates. Unlike traditional laptops, Chromebooks primarily use web applications and cloud services like Google Drive for documents, with less emphasis on local hard-drive storage. -
Apple's First introduction into wearable technology