Thursday, April 16, 2020

8º Class: "How Many Times? Short history of calculation from the Abacus to the iPad"


Paradigm Shift: The IT Revolution in Architecture
8º Class: "How Many Times? Short history of calculation from the Abacus to the iPad"


NO Video ONLY AUDIO  2017 class
Thursday April 16, 2020




"Volta Celeste" Celestian Vault
Quante Volte? How Many Times? 



Dario Pompei ITCAAD 2011


Abacus



1791-1871


The Loom in XIX century,
a programmable machine


1815-1864


Mechanic Computer 1937 Z1 (1939)  Konrad Zuse (1910-1995)


War Generic Machine Eniac 1943
 Valve (pronuncia velve!)


Transistor

Divisumma Olivetti 1956-1974







IBM corporate machines in the 1960s



San Francisco Club of Computers  ca 1969
From Fire in The Valley by Paul Freiberger


Ed Robert with his creation The Altair 1972 ca. ibidem


Steve Jobs (1955-2011) and Steve Wozniak  (1950-) 
at an early computer fair 1975 a Picture of Margaret Wozniak ibidem



Bill Gates (1955-) Ms Dos IBM PC 1981


The "Silicon" valley 


Douglas Engelbart  (1925-2013)


Mac Team 1982-1984





Bill Atkinson (1951-)
Bit Mapped Screen! Graphic Screen
Mac Paint

(Hypercard)


Bit Mapped Portrait

Saggio "tracing" or scanning using Thunder Scan From Gerhard Schmitt, Microcomputer aided Design 1986



Back to finger First Iphone 2007 "The SmartPhone revolution"


First Ipad 2010 "The tablet revolution"

What is the Key

the Key is the graphic screen we are in a world of Bits
a word of RASTER

as we are going to understand in the next class










Reading:

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Classes are broadcast every Monday and Thursday from
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6:00 pm Rome
12:00 noon New York
9:00 am San Francisco



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