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Works Cited Primary Sources Apple Computer, Inc. Advertisement. The Oak Ridger [Oak Ridge, TN] 25 Mar.

1982. Print. This site provides a primary source newspaper ad for the Apple II computer. Through this you are able to get a feel for the marketing approach published by Apple. Also, you are able to see what they pointed out as important features of the machine. Burks, Arther. Programming an ENIAC. 1946. Photograph. Columbia University, New York, New York. Programming the ENIAC. Columbia University, 25 Jan. 2011. Web. 5 Dec. 2011. This photograph shows a programmer working on an ENIAC. The site also explains the process of programming an ENIAC, which featured a language based off of certain combinations of lever positions. Da Cruz, Frank. "Programming the ENIAC." Columbia University. 25 Jan. 2011. Web. 7 Dec. 2011. This source provided pictures of people programming the ENIAC. This site explained the long and tedious process of programming not with letters of any other characters but with levers and switches. IBM Corporation. "IBM Archives: Data Processing Systems." IBM Archives. IBM Corporation. Web. 1 Dec. 2011. The IBM Archives provide both primary source video and pictures of their data systems. You can tell by the announcers voice the excitement behind these products and the importance of these machines in the long run. Lavington, Simon H. A Williams Tube. 1947. Digital Image. Early British Computers. The Williams Tube. Summer 2003. Web. 5 Dec. 2011. This image provides a vision to both the reader and myself as an author of what a cathode ray tube looks like. It also gives the reader grounds for comparison with more modern types of storage. Microsoft Corporation. "A History of Windows." Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Corporation, 2011. Web. 18 Dec. 2011.

This site provides primary source screenshots for all of Microsofts OSes all the way back to MS-DOS. It also provides several primary source pictures from launch keynotes and product pictures. Microsoft in the Future. Microsoft, Inc., 08 Oct. 2010. Web. 13 May 2012. This video provides a somewhat stereotypical, yet detailed, look into a possible future world. Though the original date posted with this video was 2019-2020 it seems unlikely that the amount of industrial, not to mention personal, adaptation needed is going to take place within the next decade. Shockley, William, and Bell Labratories. The First Transisitor. Digital image. Don Lindsey Archive. Don Lindsey, 2 Feb. 1996. Web. 4 Dec. 2011. This image is to demonstrate the size of the first transistor and to provide an illustration to the complexity and evolution of the device that would transform the world. The First Transistor. Photograph. The Miracle Month. By Courtsy Lucent. Public Broadcasting Station, 1999. Web. 3 Dec. 2011. This site provided not only imagery of the first transistor but also information about how it was crafted, modified and eventually innovated. Turning, Alan. Ferranti Mark 1. 1952. Digital Image. The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. The University of Auckland. Web. 18 Dec. 2011. This primary source image provides a look into using and operating one of the first personal sized computers, the Ferranti Mark I. This image was used to provide an illustrated comparison between systems like the ENIAC to something of the Mark 1s caliber. Secondary Sources Apple Computer, Inc. "iTunes - What Is iTunes." Apple. 2011. Digital Image. 17 Dec. 2011. Both the information and images about the iTunes Store and the iPod create an image of portable evolution as well as the change in the platforms that content is on, especially in a digital sense.

Davis, Evan. "Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy." Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy. British Broadcasting Corporation. BBC, Great Britain, 14 Dec. 2011. Television. This show provided a view of those who helped a large part of the latter end of the revolution that has already taken place. It also creates a general timeline of events that allows for further research. Fox, Karen, and Joel Shurkin. "The Future of Transistors." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. 1999. Web. 2 Dec. 2011. This series of pages gives you an in-depth history, from start to finish, of the transistor. This history is an extremely important part of the whole revolution; without the transistor the microprocessor would not be possible and by proxy computers could not evolved as they did. Isaacson, Walter. Steve Jobs. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. Print. This book gave the history of Steve Jobs and Apple, a large contributing factor in the latter of computational evolution. It gave information about his point of view going into business at Apple and eventually NeXT and Pixar as well as provided a view of the time that other innovations were going on. Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Office Suite. Digital image. Microsoft Office. Microsoft Corporation, 2010. Web. 17 Dec. 2011. The information and image pulled off of this site provide a retrospective look in comparison with the description of early word processing that gets the point of mass innovation and simplification across to the reader. Pearson, Steve. "The Digital and Electronics Revolution Timeline Memories from The People History Site." The People History. 18 June 2006. Web. 1-18 Dec. 2011. This site provides a timeline of the Digital Revolution, highlighting some of the larger evolutions as they happened throughout history. This site helped form a general map of events throughout time and gave a clear order of events.

The British Legions. "Worlds 1st Computer with Stored Programme - 'Baby' SSEM - YouTube." YouTube. 7 Apr. 2011. Web. 19 Dec. 2011. This video is of the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), aka The Baby, which was the first computer to store a program. This video was used to provide a visual of what The Baby looked like though the video is of a replica in the Manchester Museum of Science and Technology.

The IBM 305 RAMAC. Digital image. Computer History - The University of Auckland. The University of Auckland. Web. 18 Dec. 2011. This secondary source digital image of the IBM RAMA 305 allows the reader to not only envision the device running but allows them to compare the device to a more modern 3.5 or 2.5 hard drive that has hundreds of thousands of times more storage.

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