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David Packard and Bill Hewlett founf Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillato and was popular really quickly to engineers.
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The computer was completed after the proof of concept prototype. Built in Iowa State College, the ABC (The Atanasoff Computer) was designed and built by proffesor John Vincent.
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Harvard professor Howard Aiken designed the omputer but it was built by IBM. The Harvard Mark-1 was a room sized.
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This computer became operational at the institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, N.J. Contract obliged to share their designs with other research institutes.
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This was one of the first computer that was programable with transmitors. Transmitors were placed inside a bottle the sam as a vaccum tube.
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A family of six mutually compatible computers and 40 peripherals that could work to gether to make it better. The initial invesment of $5 billion was quickly returned.
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One of the first commercially sucessful minicomputers. The PDP-8 was sold for $18,000 at it's minimum.
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This computer was designed by John V. Blankenbaker using standard medium-scale and small scale integrated circuits. The Kenbak-1 relied on switches for input and lights or output.
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The Alto stored several files simultaneously in windows and offered menus and icons. The company never sole the computer comercially.
