1950's Computer Inventions

By jakegarcia85

  • 1950 First Commercially Produced Computer

    1950 First Commercially Produced Computer
    It was called the ERA 1101 and the first person to buy it was the US Navy.

  • First Computer Game

    First Computer Game
    In 1952 Alexander Douglas made a computer version of Tic-Tac-Toe. This is important because of how much more advanced computer games are.

  • IBM 701

    IBM 701
    IBM sold 19 701 computers which put them into the large scale computer market.

  • First keyboards

    First keyboards
    MIT researchers began trying to make direct keyboard inputs to computers. This is important because now the keyboard is a import part of a computer.

  • First Tennis Game

    First Tennis Game
    William Higinbotham made a tennis game. This is important because a similar game called Pong was the first video game which was basically the same thing.