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Computer History Museum David Packard and Bill Hewlett made "Hewlett-Packard (HP) in their Palo Alto, Cali. garage. The first HP product was the 200A Audio Oscillator
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Computer History Museum The first Bombe was created. It decrypted Nazi military communication during WWII. It was greatly influenced by the work of computer pioneer Alan Turing.
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Wikipedia First digital computer invented by the U.S. Army for launching ballistic missiles. It was as big as a small gymnasium and cost $500,000. The concept and design of this computer was made by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert.
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Computer Histroy Museum The National Bureau of Standards completed its Standards Western Automatic Computer, or SWAC in Los Angeles, California. RAther than testing components, it used already-developed technology to compute.
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Computer History Museum AT&T created their Dataphone, the first commercial modem. It was used for converting digital computer data to analog signals for transmission across its long distance network.
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Computer Histroy Museum The DAC-1 computer aided design program was released. In 1960, IBM joined the project, making the first commercially-available Computer Aided Design program, DAC-1.
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Computer History Museum Ray Tomlinson, from the research firm Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, sent the first e-mail when he was supposed to be working on a different project. It was sent over ARPANET. Some people believe that Ray was the one to decide on using the "@" symbol for e-mail.
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WELL Network The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link is an online Bulletin Board System (BBS) designed to build a "virtual community" of computer users for low cost. It was created by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant.
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Computer Histroy Museum Mosaic was the first commercial software that allowed graphical access to content on the internet. Designed by Eric Bina and Marc Andreessen, Mosaic was originally designed for a Unix system running X-windows.
