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This simple demonstration circuit provided proof of concept for computers. Later, this piece of technology would become part of the first Complex Number Calculator.
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David Packard and Bill Hewlett founded their company (HP) in Califoria in 1940. Their first product- the HP 200A Audio Oscillator- rapidly became a popular piece of technology among engineers.
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The Z3 used 2,300 relays performed floating point binary arithmetic, had 22-bit word length, and was used for aerodynamic calculations. It was destroyed during a bombing raid in Berlin in late 1943.
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After successfully demonstrating proof of the computer concept with a prototype in 1939, Professor John Vincent Atanasoff received funds to build a full-scale machine at Iowa State College. Atanasoff was declared the originator of several basic computer ideas, however the computer as a concept was declared un-patentable and therefore freely open to everyone.
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ERA 1101 was one of the first commercially produced computers. It was intended for high speed computing and stored one million bits on its magnetic drum, which was one of the earliest magnetic storage devices.
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Frederic Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Toothill developed the first version of random access memory, as well as the first program to ever run on it.
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As the first practical stored-program computer to provide a regular computing service, the EDSAC computer used only vacuum tubes and mercury delay lines for memory. It had many major advancements in programming.
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Considered to be the first commercially available general-purpose computer. Only oe was sold before the project lost funding and it was later re-branded as the FERUT.
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The Institute of Advanced Study was a multi-year research project that made computers essential the the US atomic weapons program.
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The first keyboard input was created
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SAGE was the first large scale computer communications network, and it connected 23 computer sites in the US and Canada.
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Minuteman Missiles used transistorized computers to continuously calculate their position in flight
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The first minicomputer is created by a group of engineers and ame the Nova Minicomputer
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Intel introduces the first microprocessor.
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The Apple II was the second computer made by Apple (after the Apple I) and came complete with a main logic board, switching power supply, keyboard, case, manual, game paddles, and cassette tape containing the game Breakout.
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This very small home computer was the first computer to be able to display output o a television through an adapter.
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The Osborne I was the first mass produced portable computer.
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Intel's supercomputer was the first computer to reach 32 gigaflops, and was used for real-time processing of satellite images.
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Theses laptops are't met with much success and are eventually redesigned completely
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Apple introduces the first handheld computer- the Newton
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Japan's SoftBank introduces the first camera phone.
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In 2006, the United Nation Development Program introduces its plant to create a program to deliver technology and resources to targeted schools in the least developed countries. By 2011, over 2.4 million laptops had been shipped.
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Rumor's about Apple's IPhone circulated for years before it came out in 2007. The first IPhone was equipped with a web browser, music player and cell phone, as well as "apps" that could be downloaded from the Apple Store.
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The first early product to be remotely controlled via smartphone or IPad
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The Apple Watch was the first that was able to be quipped with a full computing system. It was a commonly tested idea, but Apple was the first to pull it off.
