The History of the CPU

While it could be argued that the development of the CPU has it's roots as far
back as 1617 with the creation of Napier's Bones, Blaise Pascal's digital adding machine
in 1642, or Charles Babbage's Difference Engine and Analytical Engine in the early
1820s - 1830s, the patent of the vacuum tube by Lee De Forest in 1906 was the actual
starting point for John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry's first electronic computer in 1937,
incorporating the binary system still in use today. The other significant pre-transistor
contribution to the history of the CPU was the Eniac, a huge, high-power…