"Although we may not be able to predict the future, we sure can invent it" - Dr. Geoff W. Taylor, Chief Scientist of POET Technologies Inc

As we patiently wait I could not help sharing for your pleasure the term "Ultra" secracy found in a good documentary 48 minutes courtesy of History Channel Modern Marvels.

Creation of the Computer - Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXBwtULVRrE

Charles Babbage - the Difference Engine 1822
- mechanical machine shops of the time were not advanced enough to produce parts in the precise measurements
- Babbage designed better machine tools
- Babbage vision of the Analytical Engine had many components analogous to a modern computer

Herman Hollerith - Tabulating Machine Company
- 1887 US still counting 1880 census, could not keep every 10 years
- 1890 punched cards used to enter census data using electricity
- sold his shares in 1911 for 1 million dollars - the first millionaire from computers
- Hollerith former company merged with Thomas Watson renamed company in 1924 to International Business Machines (IBM)

A Colussus to solve an Enigma
- World War 2 Germany thought they had an unbreakable machine using variations of plug arrangement for code combinations
- Colossus used 2000 vacuum tubes processing 25000 characters per second
- the deciphered transmissions were called "Ultra" information and the allies had to be careful not to tip their hand
- POET seems to be "Ultra" secracy right now

The Philadephia Brain - ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
- 1943 shortage of firing tables for artillary pieces were performed by humans with mechanical adding machines
- John Mauchly with Preper Eckert proposed to design a giant electronic computer for 0.5 million dollars that could could calculate a single trajectory in 100 seconds
- 100 feet long, 30 tons, 70000 Resistors, 10000 capacitors, 6000 Switches and 18000 delicate Vacuum Tubes
- ready after Japan surrendered

The Pathfinders
- John von Neumann, phtographic memory, one of the principal scientist in the Manhatten Project and Advisor to ENIAC project
- idea of storing the program internally last key to developing the modern computer
- Eckert and Mauchly were not included as authors in Von Neumann's paper
- Eckert and Mauchly felt betrayed and created the UNIVAC and joined forces with Remington Rand
- 1952 Remington Rand used UNIVAC to predict electoral prediction accurate 1% between Eisenhower and Stevenson

IBM Wakes
- storage of punch cards was taking over the building
- Tom Watson Jr. authorized building computer unveiled in 1953 as the 701

Space Race
- 1961 America trailing Russia for the Race for Space needed miniature computer onboard
- Dec 23, 1947 John Bardeen, William Shockley, Walter Brattain. Invention of the Transistor - Bell Laboratories, awarded the Nobel Prize.
- formed on the semi-conductor silicon, transistors replaces large vacuum tubes in computers
- 1959 next revolutionary miniaturizing step Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby invented Integrated Circuit
- entire network of electronic components: transistors, diodes, capacitors and resistors could be incorporated onto a single chip of silicon
- a 10 oz computer was as powerful as a 30 lb one made of transistors
- 1969 two identical most powerful computers on Earth were leaving the planet on the Lunar Orbitor and one on the Lander

Computers on a Chip - Microprocessor
- Ted Hoff, an engineer at Intel developed a family of chips for a Japanese calculator company
- essentially became the instruction set for 4004 microprocessor
- CMOS technology pioneer Federico Faggin helped get the chip on silicon in 1971
- Steve Jobs and Steven Wasniak create the $500 Apple 1
- 1976 retired Intel millionaire Mike Markkula added sound business footing for Apple 2
- 1968 Doug Englebart demonstrated the the pointing device mouse
- 1973 Xerox executive Robert Taylor develops the "Alto" easy to use personal computer

The Continuing Revolution
- 1979 Steve Jobs inspired by the Alto and works on the Macintosh known as the first popular personal computer
- The Mac Operating System and Applications otherwise known as "Software" made the computer easy to use
- Bill Gates of Microsoft recognizes Software as dominating the advances in computers, making him the richest man in the world

The Poet Revolution
- taking us and our bank accounts into other galaxies!