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Project Worldwhind Begins
This is a flight simulator using computers that helps train bombing crews. This is an important landmark because it will help us train people without a chance of them really dying. -
Moon calculator or Selective Sequence electronic calculator
The Moon calculator was made this was able to plot the moons course. This was helpful because when astronuaghts were launched into space they could tell where the moon was going to be (later decommisoned and never used for space missions) -
Englands first commercial computer
Englands first commercial computer was made. This was important because now instead of the computer just being in America it has began to spread around the world. -
New Software
This was a big milestone for artificial inteligence, it supplied rules of reasoning and logic. This is important because it makes inteligence that we can create have its own sort of thinking. -
Robotic Inteligence
The first robot arm was made and had everything a human arm could do. This is important because it could help the handicaped have a better ability to do things and we were also increasing our artificial inteligence. -
First Commercial Mini Computer
The first mini computer that was succsessful to be sold on the market. This was important because they have now shruken and size of a computer and are able to sell it for 1/5th the price of the IBM computer -
Superpaint
The first ever digital/computer drawing system was completeled and won an award in 1998. This is important because it shows that our computer technology in improving and so is the programming and graphics. -
Apple-1
This was a single board created for people who made computers and used them as a hobby. This is important becasue it shows people are creating very small things that can be used so the laptop will be used soon. -
Commodore 64
This was a computer just put out on the market for 595$ and had 64KB of memory which may not seem like much to us now but at that time that was exceptional! This is important because it shows computers are being used at homes and were becoming cheaper. -
Doom
Doom is a video game made with exceptional graphics and was a big game at the time. This is important because it shows that graphics on computers have improved a lot and are now able to do a lot more than they used to be able too.
