TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Introduction
How to use this Book
Chapter
1: ORIGINS OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY
Introduction
Greek Counting Board
Roman Abacus
Computing in Sumer
Chapter 2: EARLY HISTORY OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
Analytical Engine: First computer
design
Bush Differential Analyzer:
First working, analog computer
Circuit Switching Z3: First
electro-mechanical computer
ENIAC: Electronic, decimal computer
Alan Turing and the concept
of a general purpose computer
CHAPTER
3: HISTORY OF MAINFRAMES
IBM
UNIVAC
CRAY
Chapter 4: GOSSIPY HISTORY OF THE PC
Introduction
Birth and death of Traf-O-Data
Macintosh
and the first GUI
Chapter
5: NATURE OF COMPUTERS NOW -- GATES
Introduction
Learning about transistors
Learning
about gates
Using Not Gates
Using AND Gates
Using NOR Gates
Using NAND Gates
Programmable Chips
Chapter
6: DANGERS TO YOUR COMPUTER
Viruses
Worms
Trojan Horses
Hackers and Crackers
Spyware
Crashes
