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Computer
Hewlett-Packard is Founded. David Packard and Bill Hewlett are the founders of this compony. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator which walt disney ordered for the movie fantasia. -
Calculator
The Complex Number Calculator is made. In 1939 Bell Telephone Labs finished making the calculator. In 1940 they showed it at the American Mathematical Society. -
Early computer
Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 computer.The Z3 was an early computer built by Konrad Zuse while he worked in isolation. -
Atanasoff-Berry
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer is finished. Built at Iowa State College. The inventor of the computer, John Vincent Atanasoff, tried to pent it but was denied. -
Era,1101
Engineering Research Associates of Minneapolis built the ERA 1101, which was the first advertised on tv. It held 1 million bits on its magnetic drum. -
Core memory
At MIT, Jay Forrester installed magnetic core memory on the Whirlwind computer. Core meomory made computers more fast and able to save things better. -
AT&T
AT&T designed its Dataphone, which was its first commercial modem which was made specifically for converting digital computer data to analog signals for transmission across its long distance network. -
Integrated circuits
Integrated circuits replased the transitors after the second generation computers. -
Control Data Corporation
STAR 100 computer which has a vector design. Information is vecotors instead of numbers. This allows for faster speed. -
Video Game
Odyssey made by Magnavox was the first video game. Intel makes the first 8-bit microprocessor chip called the 8008. -
Apple II
Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak prensent the Apple II. The first personal computer. -
Motorola
Motorola introduces it 32 bit 88000 series of reduced instruction set computing microprocessors.