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Hewlett-Packard is founded
David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto. Their first product was the HP 200A Adio Oscillator -
The complex number calculator (CNC)
Stibitz demonstrated the CNC at an american Mathematical society conferance held at Dartmouth college. Stibitz stunned the grounp by performing calculations remotely on the CNC -
John Von firtst draft of a report on the EDVAC
Jhon Von outlined the architecture of a storage of programming computer. Electronic of a storage of programming information and data eliminated the neeed for the more clumsy tape. -
The national bureau
In Washington as a laboratory for testing components and systems for setting computer stands. The national bureau of standards completed its SWAC ar the institute for numerical analysis in Los Angeles -
Felker and Harris program
AT&T Bell Laboratories announced the first fully transistorized computer TRADIC it contained nearly 800 transistors instead of vacuum tubes. -
The precursor to the minicomputer
DEC's PDP-1 sold for $120,000. one of 50 built, the average PDP-1 included with a cathode ray tube graphic display, needed no air conditioning and required only one operator. -
Xerox opens Palo Alto research
In 1970, Xerox corporation hired Dr. George pake to lead a new research center in palo alto, california -
Xerox closes its computer divison
after acquiring computer maker scientific data systems (SDS) in 1969 Xerox redesiqned -
broderbund is founded
in 1980 brothers doug and gary carlston formed a company to market the games doug had created -
commodore business machines (CBM)
its founder jack tramiel emigrated to the us after WWII where he began repairing typewriters
