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German engineer Konrad Zuse working in complete isolation from developments elsewhere, uses 2,300 relays, performs floating point binary arithmetic, and has a 22-bit word length.
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Conceived by Harvard physics professor Howard Aiken, and designed and built by IBM, the Harvard Mark 1 is a room-sized, relay-based computer
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Started in 1943, the ENIAC computing system was built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania.
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University of Manchester researchers Frederic Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Toothill develop the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, better known as the Manchester "Baby." The Baby was built to test a new memory technology developed by Williams and Kilburn
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Built in Sydney, Australia by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for use in its Radio physics Laboratory in Sydney, CSIRAC was designed by British-born Trevor Pearcey
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One of the first commercially produced computers, the company's first customer was the US Navy.
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The title of “first commercially available general-purpose computer” probably goes to Britain’s Ferranti Mark I for its sale of its first Mark I computer to Manchester University.
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The Institute of Advanced Study computer is a multi-year research project conducted under the overall supervision of world-famous mathematician John von Neumann.
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The Johnniac computer is one of 17 computers that followed the basic design of Princeton's Institute of Advanced Study computer.
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At MIT, researchers begin experimenting with direct keyboard input to computers, a precursor to today´s normal mode of operation.
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The Control Data Corporation 6600 performs up to 3 million instructions per second —three times faster than that of its closest competitor, the IBM 7030 supercomputer.
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The TV Typewriter is an easy-to-build kit that can display alphanumeric information on an ordinary television set.
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Sold complete with a main logic board, switching power supply, keyboard, case, manual, game paddles, and cassette tape containing the game Breakout, the Apple-II finds popularity far beyond the hobbyist community which made up Apple’s user community until then.
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Apple introduces the Macintosh with a television commercial during the 1984 Super Bowl, which plays on the theme of totalitarianism in George Orwell´s book 1984. The ad featured the destruction of “Big Brother” – a veiled reference to IBM, through the power of personal computing found in a Macintosh.
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Apple's Macintosh Portable meets with little success in the marketplace and lead
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Apple makes a splash with its Bondi Blue iMac, which sells for about $1,300. Customers got a machine with a 233-MHz G3 processor, 4GB hard drive, 32MB of RAM, a CD-ROM drive, and a 15" monitor.
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Apple launches the iPhone, a combination of web browser, music player and cell phone, which could download new functionality in the form of apps from the online Apple store.
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The iPad combines many of the popular capabilities of the iPhone, such as built-in high-definition camera, access to the iTunes Store, and audio-video capabilities, but with a nine-inch screen and without the phone.
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The Nest Learning Thermostat is an early product made for the emerging “Internet of Things," which envisages a world in which common everyday devices have network connectivity and can exchange information or be controlled.
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Building a computer into the watch form factor has been attempted many times but the release of the Apple Watch leads to a new level of excitement.