Questions for Computer History Game

Created: 2015-03-14 13:55 Updated: 2015-03-18 13:59 Notebook: Meadow E2015 Spring

Computer and people from the inside out

It’s not what computers were, but who? People who performed calculations.
Mathematics
1. How many ways can you write the number 10?
2. Can you compute 23467645 + (63623 - 1243543) X 2 ?
3. How many songs can you iPod hold?
4. How many hours does it take to finish your favorite game?
People were not ready for computers. Why? Examples?
When were they ready?
1. The answer: when all the pieces were ready.
2. 1. Victorian Era - Leisure time (e.g. eating out, movies, board games, parties, phonograph)
  2. Human input -> machine output
  3. 1. 1860 Typewriters
  4. The Internet
  5. 1. 1920 - 1940 Home Telephone
  6. Data Storage
  7. 1. Radio replay, rock ’n roll and records: Music for the masses, storage. Music storage is the beginning of personal (machine readable) data storage.
    2. The personal camera (35 mm, kodak instamatic)
    3. The home movie camera (family videos)
  8. The Human readable screen
  9. 1. The talkies, motion pictures (recall the scary scenes when people first saw a gun in the movies)
    2. Television - the original computer screen
    3. What is a CRT? Earliest 1922

The Personal Computer, the new appliance

The Internet and the Web

Mobile Computing

The Future - Robots, AI, Mind Clones???