Post Lab 4

1.)  The first hard drive was made by IBM in 1956 and stored 5 megabytes of memory.  The going cost was $10,000 per 
megabyte.  It was called the RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control).
http://www.research.ibm.com/about/past_history.shtml

2.)  Charles Babbage was known as the "Father of Computing".  He was born 12/26/1791 and lived to the year 1871.
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Babbage.html

3.)  The "Analytical Engine" was the first computer.
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Babbage.html

4.)  The "Analytical Engine" was not electrically powered, it was steam powered.
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Babbage.html

5.)  Ada Lovelace was known as the founder of scientific computing and was a close life-long friend to Charles 
Babbage.
http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/lovelace.html

6.)  Romantic Poet Lord Byron was Ada Lovelace's father.
http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/lovelace.html

7.)  She was known for Scientific computing.
http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/lovelace.html

8.)  The ENIAC (first general-purpose computer) weighed 10,000 kilograms.
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa060298

9.)  The ENIAC was designed by the U.S. Military as a calculating device for writing artillery-firing tables for short
and long range weapons.
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa060298

10.) Construction on the ENIAC was completed in 1946.
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa060298

11.) Other general use computer that were claimed to be the first was the Atanasoff-Berry Computer built by Prfessor
Atanasoff and graduate Clifford Berry at Iowa State Unuversity between 1939 and 1942.
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa050898