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Harvard Mark 1
LinkHoward Aiken and Grace Hopper developed this model in 1944. Imagine a giant room full of noisy, clicking metalic parts that are 55 feet long and eight feet high. The five-ton device contained almost 760,000 seperate pieces. -
ENIAC
Wikiepedia It stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer was the first general purpose computer. The machine was the size of a room and cost $500,00 to build. It was primarily invented for Military Purposes. -
The Transistor
LinkDeveloped by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley in 1947-1948. Although not a computer itself, it greatly assisted in theri evolution by making them more stable electronically and cheaper to produce. -
IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Calculator
Link This was the first mass-produced computer with the company selling 450 in a year. Spinning at 12,500 rpm, the 650's magnetic data-storage drum allowed much faster access to stored material than drum memory machines. -
Spacewar computer game
LinkThe first computer game invented by Steve Russel.It was also a two player computer game which was amazing at the time. As of today there is only one orignal Spacewar working. -
PDP-8
Link This was the first commercially successful minicomputer. It origanally sold for $18,00 at the time. The speed, the small size, and a reasonable cost enabled the PDP-8 to go into thousands of manufacturaing plants, small buisnesses, and scientific laboratories. -
ARPANET
Link The ARPANET was the world's first operational packet switching netwrorks, the first network in implement TCP/IP, and the progenitor of what was to become the global Internet. It stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. -
Mobile Phone
Link The first hand held cell phone was demonstrated by John F. Mitchell and Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola. They used a handset weighing about 4.4 pounds. -
Alto
Link This was the first work station with 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. -
WI-FI
Link in 1991 the NCR Corporation and the AT&T Corporation developed WI-FI. It was originally suppose to be used for cashier systems. The first wireless product was under the name WaveLAN. -
Bluetooth
Link In 1994 a group of engineers at Ericsson, a Swedish company invented Bluetooth. Then in 1998, the original group of Promoter companies- Ericsson, Intel, Nokia, Toshiba, and IBM- came together to from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. -
iPod
Link The iPod is a line of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Inc. Eight and half months after the release of the first iPod, iTunes was released as media library and media player. -
iPhone
LinkThis is a line of smartphones marketed and designed by Apple Inc. It has a user interface and is built around the device's multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard. The phone has WI-FI and can to many cellular networks. -
Droid Phone
Link This phone product was made by Verizon as an Iphone alternate. It runs on the Google's Android operating system. -
iPad
Link This is a line of tablet computers designed by Apple Inc. An iPad can shoot a video, take photos, play music, and perform internet functions such as web-browsing and emailing.
