History Of Computers by Nicholas Lockledge

A Logic Named Joe is published 1946

31lockledgen — 2025-09-03 14:33:13 UTC

Will F. Jenkins' had been regularly appearing since the 1920s. In March of 1946 Astounding Science Fiction, Jenkins publishes A Logic Named Joe, a small story detailing where computers, called Logics, were interconnected

First actual case of bug being found 1947

31lockledgen — 2025-09-04 14:43:26 UTC

The word bug, when applied to computers, means failure. On September 9th, Grace Hopper records what she jokingly called the first actual computer bug - a moth stuck between relay contacts of the Harvard Mark the 2nd computer prior to its eventual installation at the Naval Weapons Laboratory at Dalhgren. VA.

IBM switches to electronics 1949

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IBM executive Thomas Watson Jr., speaking to an IBM sales meeting, predicts that all moving parts in IBM machines would be replaced by electronics within a decade. The change to electronics marked a major shift for IBM, which since the 1920s was the world leader in electro-mechanical punched card systems. Initially, “electronics” meant the use of vacuum tubes for circuitry but in the mid-1950s, IBM management instructed all its engineers to make new equipment

UNIVAC computer predicts election 1952

31lockledgen — 2025-09-04 14:49:02 UTC

Australia's 1st computer, the CSIRAC, begins operating in 1949. Chief programmer Geoff Hill came from a musical family and as part of preparations for a demonstration of CSIRAC during the first Australian Conference on Automatic Computing Machines, he programmed it to play a lot of songs, including Colonel Bogey, a popular regimental march written at the beginning World War 1.

Alan Turing is found dead at age 42 1954

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English mathematician Alan Turing is found dead

Star Trek debuts with multiple computation devices 1967

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One of the most popular television series of all-time, Star Trek tells of the journeys of the starship Enterprise and its 5 year mission of exploration. Star Trek speculated on technologies such as voice recognition, handheld computing and communications, human computer interaction, and machine-supported medical diagnosis.

A space odyssey released 1968

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Based on the short story The Sentinel by author Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey tells the story of the HAL 9000 computer as it malfunctions during the Discovery One spaceship's trip to Jupiter to investigate a mysterious signal.

First computers installed in white house

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While the US government had funded many computing projects dating back to the 1940s, it wasn't until the Carter administration that a computer is actually installed in the White House.

Time announces machine of the year

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