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This was one of the first commercially produced computers that was built by Remington-Rand and could store one million bits.
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Edmund Berkeley's design for the Simon 1 relay computer is published. It uses relay logic and costs $600 to build.
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Alexander Douglas, who was a Cambridge University PhD candidate designed one of the earliest computer games called "Naughts and Crosses", which was a version of tic-tac-toe.
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Richard Grimsdale and Douglas Webb demonstrate a prototype transistorized computer, the "Manchester TC", on November 16, 1953. The computer was a 48-bit machine that used 92 point-contact transistors and 550 diodes.
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IBM establishes the 650 as its first mass-produced computer that had a 12,500 rpm with faster access to stored information. It became very popular especially in universities.
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This was designed by Gardner Hendrie for Computer Control Corporation and it was the world's first commercial 16-bit minicomputer.
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IBM introduces the System 370 Model 145 mainframe computer, the company's first all-semiconductor memory computer. The Model 145 could store an equivalent amount of data in half the space, compared to a computer using core memory.
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The Video Display Module (VDM) marks the first implementation of a memory-mapped alphanumeric video display for personal computers.
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Seagate Technology creates the first hard disk drive for microcomputers, the ST506. The disk held 5 megabytes of data, five times as much as a standard floppy disk, and fit in the space of a floppy disk drive.
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The C++ programming language emerges as the dominant object-oriented language in the computer industry when Bjarne Stroustrup publishes the book The C++ Programming Language.
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Photoshop is released. Created by brothers John and Thomas Knoll, Photoshop was an image editing program and the most popular software program published by Adobe Systems
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Microsoft ships Windows 3.0. Compatible with DOS programs, the first successful version of Windows finally offered good enough performance to satisfy PC users. For the new version, Microsoft updated the interface and created a design that allowed PCs to support large graphical applications for the first time. It also allowed multiple programs to run simultaneously on its Intel 80386 microprocessor.
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Java 1.0 is introduced by Sun Microsystems. The Java platform’s “Write Once, Run Anywhere” functionality let a program run on any system, offering users independence from traditional large software vendors like Microsoft or Apple.
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Something many people in the computer industry thought would never happen.
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Google announces it has indexed over one billion pages making it the Internet's largest search engine.
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Since the release of the Macintosh in 1984, Apple has placed emphasis on high-resolution graphics and display technologies. In 2012, Apple introduced the Retina display for the MacBook Pro laptop and iPad tablet
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Until now, there hasn't been any quantum-computing platform that had the capability to program new algorithms into their system. They're usually each tailored to attack a particular algorithm," said study lead author Shantanu Debnath, a quantum physicist and optical engineer at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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