Computer's History

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  • The Turing Machine

    The first ever computer engineered to combat the encriptions made by the Nazi's enigma machine.
  • The Eniac

    Consists of vacuum tubes. This first general purpose computer took the space of a huge room and its task was to calculate artillery firing tables
  • The Modem

    The early modems were used by the US Air Force in the 1950's, but the first commercial ones were made a decade later.
    The earliest modems were about 75 bps (or bits per second)
  • The First Hard Drive

    Ibm ships this hard drive for a whopping $10000 per megabyte
    The RAMAC held 5mB of data and was big as 2 refrigerators.
  • Fortran

    The first ever programming language using English instead of initelligable numbers. It was suited for numeric computation and scientific calculation
  • The Mouse

    The mouse first started using a trackball, made by a team led by Rainer Mallerbrein at Telefunken Konstans for the German Bundesanstalt für Flugsicherung as part of their TR 86 process computer system
  • RAM

    Robert H. Dennard's invention greatly increased memory density at the cost of volatility, and RAM was born.
  • The Arpanet

    The Arpanet was the dad of the internet we all know and love.
    Four different computers linked up at that time, with the message "lo" rather than login as the planned due to the a not so powerful system
  • Mp944

    The Mp944 was the world's first microprocessor, used on US military aircrafts like the F-14
  • intel 4004

    The Intel 4004 was the first commercially available microprocessor.
    Made by Federico Faggin.
    Maximum clock rate was 740kHz able to directly address 640 bytes of RAM
  • The Floppy Disk

    They became commercially available in 1971 part of IBM products.
    Later on they were sold separately by Memorex and others
  • {c} The Programming Language

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie at the AT&T Bell Labs.
    It is now the most widely used languages of all time
  • Pong

    Who knew a square dot and a few bars could be so exciting...
  • The Ethernet Cable

    Developed at Xerox PARC Ethernet data transfer rates have been increased from the original 2.94mb/s to the latest 100gb/s per second
  • The Altair 8800

    The first personal computer based in the intel8008 cpu, Ran on the Altair basic, 200khz to 800khz.
  • The Apple 2

    Ran on integer BASIC, 4 to 64kB RAM, MOS6502 cpu, 5069$ in today's price
  • C++

    Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup based on C.
    He added classes and a tiny bit of syntax change
  • MS DOS

    IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC.
    The pair buy the rights to a simple operating system.
    Manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template.
    IBM allows the two to keep the marketing rights to the operating system, called DOS.
  • Pac-Man

    The game
  • The IBM PC

    Released august 12, 1981, created under the direction of Don Estridge.
    Popularized the term PC as personal computer
  • Commadore 64

    About 12 million units sold.
    Highest selling computer of all time.
    64 kilobytes of ram
  • The Macintosh

    The Macintosh was the first mass-market PC featuring a Graphical interface.
    Its was however quite expensive and that hurt its ability to compete with the commadore and ibm.
  • Mac OS

    The Mac OS brought the graphical interface to everyday life.
    It was one of the first few to use it.
    They originally got the idea from Xerox
  • Windows 1.0

    Windows 1.0 was the front end of ms-dos, it could multitask and had more graphical support
  • < html >

    Not many people were involved in website creation at the time, and the language was very limiting.
    That really wasn't much you could do with it but getting simple text onto the web
  • Photoshop

    The first photoshop had no layers but had a few selections of filters, brushed and file types.
    Only one undo and had no live preview
  • The World Wide Web (WWW)

    This was the first chapter... of the information age.
    At the very beginning, the whole World Wide Web was baked by one computer only
  • __

    Credited for popularizing the early World Wide Web.
    You can still see a shadow of it in modern browsers.
    By November 1992, there were twenty-six websites in the world
  • Intel Pentium

    It's the successor of the intel 486. It started from being the top of the line processor at the time.
  • The Playstation 1

    Sony's first try on the home video game console.
    It had a MIPS (33.8mhz) CPU.
    They flushed down the drain game cartridges, using CD's instead.
    And sent the running Saga Saturn for its money.
  • Windows 95

    Code named Chicago, a major update from Windows 3.1x, with the start button. It brought more users to the internet via the preloaded Internet Explorer