Computers

  • The first computer

    The first computer
    Hewlett-Packard was the first to make a computer called HP 200A Audio Oscillator. Wich rapidly became a popular peice of test equiptment for engineers. Disney ordered multiple 200B versons of the computer for sound effects for the movie "Fantasia".
  • THE FIRST COMPUTER

    THE FIRST COMPUTER
    Hewlett-Packard was the first to make a computer called HP 200A Audio Oscillator. Wich rapidly became a popular peice of test equiptment for engineers. Disney ordered multiple 200B versons of the computer for sound effects for the movie "Fantasia".
  • THE ATANASOF BERRY COMPUTER

    THE ATANASOF BERRY COMPUTER
    This computer called the The Atanasoff-Berry Computer or the (ABC). After he sucseffuly made a prototype in 1939 he was rewarded enough money to make the full machine. The ABC was the center of the patent dispute to the invetion of the machine. Atanasoff was declared the originator of several basic computer ideas. then the computer was open to the public.
  • ENIAC

    ENIAC
    In Febuary, th epublic got a first impresion of the ENIAC, a machine built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert that improved a thousand times on the speed of its contemporaries. the speed of the machine was 5,000 operations per second!
  • ERA 1101

    ERA 1101
    The ERA 1101was the first comercially produced computer. Their first costomer was the US Navy; it held one million bits of magnetic drum, the earliest magnetic storage device. The drums stored about four thousand words.
  • MIT Whirlwind

    MIT Whirlwind
    Edward R. the creator of the computer. Jay Forrester the user of the computer described it as reliable he used it thirty five hours a week. It had four thousand five hundred vacum tubes, and the floor space was three thousand one hundred square feet.
  • Los Alamos MANIAC

    Los Alamos MANIAC
    John von Neumann IAS computer was operational at the institute for advanced studies in Princeton, N.J. The contract made the engineers to share thir designs.
  • IBM 701

    IBM 701
    IBM shipped its first electric computer, the 701. During the years of production IBM sold nineteen machines to research labratories, aircraft companies, and the federal government.
  • MIT TX0

    MIT TX0
    MIT researchers built the TX-0, the first general-purpose programable computer with built in transistors. For easy replacement the designers placed each transistor into a "bottle" or almost like a tube. They then had some testing with programing.
  • SAGE operator station

    SAGE operator station
    SAGE — Semi-Automatic Ground Environment. Like hundred of radar statons in the US and Canada in the first large-scale computer communications network. AN operator directed the system by taping a light gun on the screen
  • DEC PDP-1

    DEC PDP-1
    DEC PDP-2 was sold for one hundred twenty thousand dollars!
  • Wes Clark with LINC

    Wes Clark with LINC
    The LINC (Laboratory Instrumentation Computer) offered the first real time labratory data procesing. Designed by Wesley Clark at Lincoln Labratories, later comercialized the LINC8. They mostly used this machine for biomedical studies.
  • Steve Russel invented the first game called (Space War)

    Steve Russel invented the first game called (Space War)
    In 1962, Steve Russel invented the first game (SpaceWar) its a computer game. It had white dots and it was shaped like a pentagon.
  • DEC PDP-8

    DEC PDP-8
    Digital equiptment corp. created the PDP-8, the first sucsefull minicomputer. The PDP-8 sold for eight teen thousand dollars. The speed, small size, and reasonable cost enabled the PDP-8 to go into thousands of manufacturing plants, small businesses, and scientific laboratories.
  • Xerox Alto

    Xerox Alto
    Researchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center designed the Alto. The first computer with a built in mouse for input. The Alto stored several files simultaneously in windows, offered menus and icons, and could link to a local area network. Even though the Xero didnt go on comercially it was poular
  • Apple 2

    Apple 2
    On April Fool's Day, 1976, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs released the Apple I computer and started Apple Computers. The Apple I was the first single circuit board computer.
  • Apple 2

    Apple 2
    In 1977, Apple Computers was incorporated and the Apple II computer model was released. The Apple II was also based on the 6502 processor, but it had color graphics (a first for a personal computer), and used an audio cassette drive for storage. Its original configuration came with 4 kb of RAM, but a year later this was increased to 48 kb of RAM and the cassette drive was replaced by a floppy disk drive.
  • NeXT

    NeXT
    Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, who left Apple to form his own company, unveiled the NeXT. At a base price of $6,500, the NeXT ran too slowly to be popular. a built-in digital signal processor that allowed voice recognition, and object-oriented languages to simplify programming.
  • Early Publicity still for the Commodore 64

    Early Publicity still for the Commodore 64
    Commodore introduces the Commodore 64. The C64, as it was better known, sold for $595, came with 64KB of RAM and featured impressive graphics. This computer has sold more than twenty two million times.
  • WORLD WIDE WEB

    WORLD WIDE WEB
    The World Wide Web is launched to the public on August 6, 1991.
  • social networking

    social networking
    social networks have put a twist on how and why people use computers today, these applications have made commmunication a co9nstant thing in todays world
  • google

    google
    google is a very useful search engine and is now a top website for buissneses to get their name to the public and to advertise products
  • IPOD

    a media player and uploadable file exernal drive.
  • XBOX

    The Xbox is a video game console created by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001 and is they made the Xbox 360 in its footsteps. It was Microsoft's first attempt into the gaming console market, and competed with Sony's PlayStation 2, Sega's Dreamcast, and Nintendo's GameCube.
  • Itunes

    Apple opens the iTunes store. A software-based online digital media store.
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Mark Zuckerberg launches Thefacebook, which later becomes Facebook
  • YOUTUBE

    YOUTUBE
    youtube allowed people from all around the world to share videos by posting the on youtube where anyone in the world could watch
  • Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne invented first MacBook

    Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne invented first MacBook
    The very first MacBook was invented in May 16, 2006 and was made by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. It had a big screen but it didn't have a click mouse.
  • Iphone

    Iphone
    iPod touch+Phone+Camera