History Of Computers

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  • The first ever computer

    Konrad Zuse had created the world's first electrical binary programmable computer in his parents living room, The Z1

  • The First Digital Computer

    ABC short for Atanasoff-Berry Computer from the starting creators of Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry.

  • ENIAC

    The ENIAC was argued to be the first digital computer before the ABC. The creators of the ENIAC were J. Presper Eckert and Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania. The ENIAC was considered the first ever functional digital computer.

  • The first stored program computer

    The early British computer known as the EDSAC was introduced to be the first stored program electronic computer. it performed its first calculation on May 6th, 1949. It was also the first computer to run the first graphical computer game.

  • The first computer with RAM

    MIT introduces the Whirlwind machine that was the first digital computer with real time graphics and magnetic core RAM.

  • The first transistor computer

    The TX-O, short for Transistorized Experimental computer, was introduced at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • The first Minicomputer

    Digital Equipment Corporation released its first of many PDP computer's the PDP-1 (Minicomputer).

  • The first personal computer

    Ed Roberts introduced the first personal computer, the Altair 8800. Although the first personal computer was the Kenback-1, the computer relied on a series of lights (1971).

  • The first laptop or portable computer

    The IBM 5100 was the first portable computer with a 1.9MHz PALM processor,64KB of Ram, tape drive, and a five-inch CRT display. The portable computer weighed about 24 pounds.

  • The first Apple computer

    Steve Wozniak was the one who designed the first Apple known as the Apple I computer in 1976.

  • The first PC

    IBM was the first to introduce the first PC, the IBM PC or others referred to it as "Acorn". It contained an 8088 processor, 16 KB of memory, and was able to utilize MS-DOS.

  • The first PC clone

    The first PC clone was introduced by Compaq, the PC "Compaq Portable" was 100% compatible with IBM computers and allowed softwares that ran on IBM

  • The first multimedia computer

    Tandy Radio Shack becomes one of the first companies to release a computer based on the MPC standard with its introduction of the M2500 XL/2 and M4020SX computers.