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

ASCIIchunk

HTTP/HTMLpair

WIMP/GUIquestion

PCMCIAinvent

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Francois

You asked:

> Have you done your

> homework? :-)

Yes, I have.

John Dogood

System UnitMotherboard

CPU (Central Processing Unit)RAM

Hard Drive and Floppy Drive

Power Supply

Daughterboards Keyboard Monitor Peripherals

Parts of the Computer

Review - Types of StorageStorage

Permanent Temporary

ROM

Removable Fixed

Hard DriveFloppy

CD-ROM

RAM

Magneto-Optical

Storage typically measured in K (Kilobytes) or MB (Megabytes)

Letters to bytes via bits

“A” 1 Byte01000001

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Floppy DiskCD-ROM

Laser

(8 Bits)

Brief History of Computing

Types of Histories Babbage and Lovelace ENIAC Altair Apple IBM PC

Types of Histories

Mathematics Calculating Machines Business Processes Electronics - Transistors Media (Art and Cinema) People and Companies Humanities Computing

al-Kharazmi

Alan Turing

Business

Babbage and Lovelace Charles Babbage (1791-1871) Difference Engine 1834 Analytical Engine

Programmable (Cards)

Mechanical Ada Lovelace

Babbage and Lovelace

Bruce Sterling & William GibsonThe Difference Engine

Sadie PlantZeros + 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

Humanist discussion listhttp://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/index.html

Archives

Humanist discussion listhttp://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/index.html