-
A punched card also known as a (punch card or Hollerith card) is a stiff paper-based medium used to store digital information through the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. -
Hewlett-Packard Company, American manufacturer of software and computer services and a major brand in the history of computers and computer-related products. The company split in 2015 into two companies: HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Headquarters were in Palo Alto, California. The company was founded on January 1, 1939, by William R. Hewlett and David Packard, two recent electrical-engineering graduates of Stanford University. -
Grace Hopper was a pioneering computer scientist and mathematician who made significant contributions to the field of computer programming. Born on December 9, 1906, in New York City. In 1959, Hopper participated in the Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL), where she helped create COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language). -
Apple Inc., originally Apple Computer, Inc., is a multinational corporation that creates and markets consumer electronics and attendant computer software, and is a digital distributor of media content. Founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne created Apple Computer Co. on April 1, 1976, to market Wozniak's Apple I desktop computer and Jobs and Wozniak incorporated the company on January 3, 1977 in Cupertino, California. -
Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer, inventor, and a pioneer in many aspects of computer science. In 1988, Engelbart and his daughter Christina launched the Bootstrap Institute – later known as The Doug Engelbart Institute – to promote his vision, especially at Stanford University -
The iPhone is a line of smartphones developed and marketed by Apple Inc. that run iOS, the company's own mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by then–Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, at Macworld 2007, and launched later that year. -
Chromebook (stylized in all-lowercase) is a line of laptops, desktops, tablets and all-in-one computers that run ChromeOS, a proprietary operating system developed by Google. Chromebooks are optimised for web access. They also run Android apps, Linux applications, and Progressive web apps which do not require an Internet connection. It was introduced in June 15, 2011. -
The Apple Watch is a brand of smartwatch products developed and marketed by Apple. It incorporates fitness tracking, health-oriented capabilities, and wireless telecommunication, and integrates with watchOS and other Apple products and services. The Apple Watch was released in April 2015, and quickly became the world's best-selling wearable device: 4.2 million were sold in the second quarter of fiscal 2015.