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This calculator, designed by researcher George Stibitz. The first demonstration of remote access computing.
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The was an early computer built by German engineer Konrad Zuse working in complete isolation from developments elsewhere.Using 2,300 relays, the Z3 used floating point binary arithmetic and had a 22-bit word length.
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The team first built a large analog computer, but found it inaccurate and inflexible. After designers saw a demonstration of the ENIAC computer, they decided on building a digital computer.
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Conceived by Harvard professor Howard Aiken, and designed and built by IBM, the Harvard Mark-1 was a room-sized, relay-based calculator. The machine had a fifty-foot long camshaft that synchronized the machine’s thousands of component parts
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IBM´s Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator computed scientific data in public display near the company´s Manhattan headquarters. things that were on the IBM: Speed: 50 multiplications per second Input/output: cards, punched tape Memory type: punched tape, vacuum tubes, relays
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John von Neumann´s IAS computer became operational at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, N.J. Contract obliged the builders to share their designs with other research institutes.
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At MIT, Jay Forrester installed magnetic core memory on the Whirlwind computer. Core memory made computers more reliable, faster, and easier to make
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The combined firm became a giant in the calculating machine business and expanded into electronics and digital computers when these technologies developed. Burroughs created many computer systems in the 1960s and 1970s
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Jack Kilby created the first integrated circuit at Texas Instruments to prove that resistors and capacitors could exist on the same piece of semiconductor material.
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The precursor to the minicomputer, DEC´s PDP-1 sold for $120,000. One of 50 built, the average PDP-1 included with a cathode ray tube graphic display, needed no air conditioning and required only one operator
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The Laboratory Instrumentation Computer was a 12-bit, 2048-word computer. It can be considered the first minicomputer and a forerunner to the personal computer.
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The first large-scale array computer, is the ILLIAC IV achieved a speed of 200 million instructions per second.
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The Apollo Guidance Computer made its debut orbiting the Earth on Apollo 7.
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The Tandy Corporation was one of the leading computer technology companies in the 1970s. Their most popular item the TRS-80 arrived on the market in the late 1970s and was immediately popular.
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The TV Typewriter, designed by Don Lancaster, provided the first display of alphanumeric information on an ordinary television set
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The MITS Altair 8800 was a microcomputer design from 1975. The designers hoped to sell a few hundred build-it-yourself kits to hobbyists, and were surprised when they sold thousands in the first month.
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The 68000 Microprocessor launched by Motorola, the first of the 68k family. 5 years later it was used in machines like Apple Macintosh, the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga.
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Seagate Technology created the first hard disk drive for microcomputers. It held 5 megabytes of data, more than five times as much as a floppy disk.
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The C64, as it was better known, sold for $595, came with 64KB of RAM and featured impressive graphics.
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The Amiga 1000 is released. This computer sold for over 1000 dollars, and thats without monitor.
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IBM made PS/2 machines, which made the 3 1/2-inch floppy disk drive and video graphics just right for IBM computers.
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The Video Toaster was a video editing and production system for the Amiga line of computers and included custom hardware and special software
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TWAIN a standard interface for scanning equipment is developed by the TWAIN consortium, as it was called, consisted of representatives from Aldus, Caere, Eastman, Kodak, Hewlett Packard and Logitech.
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The Iomega Zip Disk is here. The initial Zip system allowed 100MB to be stored on a cartridge roughly the size of a 3 ½ inch floppy disk
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Apple allows other computer companies to clone its computer by announcing its licensed the Macintosh operating system rights to Radius on January 4.
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Windows 2000 is here, on February 17, but when Windows 2000 fails to support legacy applications due to its NT foundation, Windows ME is quickly developed under the 9.x technology.
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A new generation of video games is out when Microsoft enters the market with X-Box, Sony releases a long awaited Playstation II, and Nintendo releases the Game Cube.
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Apple launches the iTunes Music Store with 200,000 songs at 99¢ each, along with the new third-generation iPod that is thinner and lighter than two CDs and holds 7,500 songs
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The Cabir aka SymbOS/Cabir virus and fist known cell phone virus is discovered June 14, 2004 and is capable of spreading to other Symbian phones over Bluetooth.
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Apple introduces the iPhone 4 on June 24, 2010.Founded by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs Incorporated January 4, 1977 Apple is the main manufacturer of a line of personal computers under the Apple Macintosh (Mac) brand name, peripherals, and computer software.
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microprocessors will hit 10GHz by the year 2011. In addition, it is currently working on a system bus that is 10 times faster than its upcoming 400 MHz (4*100MHz) Pentium 4 system bus, working at effective speeds of around 4 Gh
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