1. History of Computer’s Ryan Mishler

2. 1936- Konrad Zuse invents Z1 computer, the first freely programmable computer. 1951- First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners. 1955- The first bank industry computer - also MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) for reading checks. 1962- The first computer game invented. 1964- The computer mouse was invented. 1971- Floppy Disk invented. 1981- Microsoft was started. 1985-Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple 1986-Gigabite is founded. 1988- About 45 million PCs are in use in the United States.

3. Measurement Terms nibble- a small byte Byte- a sequence of 8 bits Kibibyte- a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes Kilobyte- a unit of information equal to 1000 bytes Megabyte- a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes megabit a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobits gigabyte- a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes gigabit, a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits RAM- Random Access Measurement

4. Sources www.computerhistory.com www.computer.howstuffworks.com

5. Konrad Zuse made the first computer. he first programs were meticulously written in raw machine code, and everything was built up from there. The first laptop was made in1969 by Bill Moggridge.

6. A virus is something that can slow your computer speed down. A computer virus may corrupt or delete data on a computer. Worms spread from computer to computer, but unlike a virus it has the capability to travel without any human action. A worm takes advantage of transport features on your system, which is what allows it to travel unaided. A Trojan Horse, at first glance will appear to be useful software but will actually do damage once installed or run on your computer.

7. Top Computer Producers IBM Hewlett Packard Verizon Communications Dell Microsoft