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Computer History
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HP 200a Oscillator
This computor was very good at graphics. Disney ordered eight for it's movie "Fantasy" -
Zuse 3
This computer was good at calculations and you could type on it -
Whirlwind
This machine was used for training American Navy pilots. -
Colossus
Used to break Lorenz cipher during WW2 -
ENIAC
This machine was used for calculations and typing. -
Manchester Mark 1
Machine for remembering calculations and documents -
MIT Whirlwind
Machine for remembering things (2048 16-digit words, 32768 letters) -
IBM 701
First electronic computer, research and government business -
SAGE
Linking US and Canadian radios, used light gun as a mouse. -
CDC 6600
3,000,000 instructions per second, three times faster than IBM Stretch -
ILLIAC IV
200 million instructions per second -
Nova Minicomputer
32 kilobytes of memory for $8000 -
Kenbak 1
First personal computer -
Alto
First work station with built-in mouse input -
Apple 1
Single board computer -
IBM PC
First personal computer with keyboard and printer -
Compaq PC clone
Very small, and quite light -
IBM PS 2
Allowed use of mouse, used 3.5 inch floppy disk -
Macbook Pro
Widescreen, fast, compact, slim, allowed a lot of games to be played. -
HP Elitebook
A new computer with very fast processors, multiple operations and a comfortable keyboard.