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the computer componet
Laboratories announced the first fully transistorized computer, TRADIC. It contained nearly 800 transistors instead of vacuum tubesenabled the machine to operate on fewer than 100 watts, or one-twentieth the power required by comparable vacuum tube computers.
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IBM computer/360
IBM announced the System/360, a family of six mutually compatible computers and 40 peripherals that could work together.The initial investment of $5 billion was quickly returned as orders for the system climbed to 1,000 per month within two years. -
CDC 6600
CDC´s 6600 supercomputer, designed by Seymour Cray, performed up to 3 million instructions per second — a processing speed three times faster than that of its closest competitor, the IBM Stretch. -
scelbi 8h computer
Scelbi advertised its 8H computer, the first commercially advertised U.S. computer based on a microprocessor, Intel´s 8008.It had 4 kilobytes of internal memory and a cassette tape, with both teletype and oscilloscope interfaces. -
xerox alto
Researchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center designed the Alto the first work station with a built-in mouse for input. The Alto stored several files simultaneously in windows, offered menus and icons, and could link to a local area network. -
apple computer
Apple Computer launched the Macintosh, the first successful mouse-driven computer with a graphic user interface, with a single $1.5 million commercial during the 1984 Super Bowl.Applications that came as part of the package included MacPaint, which made use of the mouse, and MacWrite, which demonstrated WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) word processing.
