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Computer History - 1940's

By dalia.soledad

  • Z3 Machine

    Z3 Machine
    Konrad Zuse designed the first working programmable and fully automatic digital computer in 1935 and finished it in 1941.

  • Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)

    Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
    Atanasoff and student Clifford Berry design the first digital electronic computer in the U.S. Was able to store information on main memory and perform one operation every 15 second.

  • ENIAC

    ENIAC
    First programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer (all in one).

  • Transistor

    Transistor
    William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain of Bell Laboratories invent the transistor. A transistor computer that uses transistors instead of vacuum tubes.

  • Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC)

    Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC)
    Maurice Wilkes and a team at the University of Cambridge developed the EDSAC. It was able to calculate a table of squares and a list of prime numbers.