Introduction to Humanities Computing Spring 1999 Lecture Three

Introduction to Humanities Computing Spring 1999 Lecture Three

Introduction to Humanities Computing François Lachance 416 326 -2524 (o) TSH 205 (drop off) lachanc@mcmaster. ca

Acronym Acrobatics F ASCII chunk F HTTP/HTML pair F WIMP/GUI question F PCMCIA invent

E-mail Pointers F Address your notes F Sign your notes F Give context F Quoting other notes Don’t quote too much F Use carriage returns F Reread before sending Francois You asked: > Have you done your > homework? : -) Yes, I have. John Dogood

Parts of the Computer F System Unit Motherboard FCPU (Central Processing Unit) FRAM Hard Drive and Floppy Drive Power Supply Daughterboards F Keyboard F Monitor F Peripherals

Review - Types of 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 o ff. (8 Bits) “A” o 1 Byte 01000001 . on ff off n. ff. . o o ff. o Laser CD-ROM Floppy Disk

Brief History of Computing F Types of Histories F Babbage and Lovelace F ENIAC F Altair F Apple F IBM PC

Types of Histories F Mathematics Business F Calculating Machines F Business Processes F Electronics - Transistors F Media (Art and Cinema) F People and Companies F Humanities Computing al-Kharazmi Alan Turing

Babbage and Lovelace F Charles Babbage (1791 -1871) F Difference Engine F 1834 Analytical Engine Programmable (Cards) Mechanical F Ada Lovelace

Babbage and Lovelace Bruce Sterling & William Gibson The Difference Engine Sadie Plant Zeros + Ones

ENIAC F Mauchly and Eckert - 1943 proposal to Army F ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) working in 1945 (after the war) F von Neumann - EDVAC F Transistor invented in 1947 F ICs - Integrated Circuits Printer

ENIAC Pictures Programming with switches Engineers The initiating and cycling units of ENIAC

Altair - the Microcomputer F Intel 4004 Microprocessor 1969 F MITS - Altair F Uses the Intel 8080 F Cover of Popular Electronics Jan. 1975 F MITS hires Allen (and Gates) F 1973 Kildall creates CP/M

Apple F Steve Wozniak (the Woz) F Steven Jobs F Homebrew Computer Club F Apple I - MOS 6502 chip F 1976 Mike Markkula bought in F 1977 the Apple II F 1984 the Macintosh

IBM PC F Built on the Intel 8088 F Operating System from Microsoft (and others) F Put together with existing components F Open to cards and software F Released in 1981 An IBM Clone

Key Innovations F Calculating device F General Purpose Device - Programmability F Digital Device F Electrical Device F Integrated Circuits - Transistors F Interface from Commands to GUI F Multiuser/Shared Computer to Personal Computer

Histories F Computer Journalism F The Media’s Fascination F Science Fiction F Computer Clubs F Academic Computing Humanist discussion list http: //www. princeton. edu/~mccarty/humanist/index. html

Archives Humanist discussion list http: //www. princeton. edu/~mccarty/humanist/index. html