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Test equipment for engineers
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Helped calculate hard equations in maths
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The bombe was an electromechanical device used by British cryptologists to help decipher German Enigma-machine-encrypted secret messages during World War II
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The Colossus computers were used by British code breakers during World War II to help work out hidden messages
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Whirlwind not only was the first digital computer able to operate in real-time, but also was the first digital computer at MIT.
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MIT researchers built the TX-0, the first general-purpose, programmable computer built with transistors
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engineer Ben Gurley designed a high-speed, solid state, considered the first commercial, interactive computer.
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Victor Scheinman´s Stanford Arm made a breakthrough as the first successful electrically powered, computer-controlled robot arm
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The TV Typewriter, designed by Don Lancaster, provided the first display of alphanumeric information on an ordinary television set
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featured the ability to address up to 4.3 gigabytes of virtual memory, providing hundreds of times the capacity of most minicomputers.
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Commodore introduces the Commodore 64. The C64, as it was better known, sold for $595, came with 64KB of RAM and featured impressive graphics
