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Konrad Zuse Z3 Computer
The Z3 was destroyed in a bombing raid on Berlin in the late 1943 and was used for 2,300 relays, performs floating point binary arithmetic, and has a 22-bit word length. Later on Konrad Zuse reconstructed the Z3 in the 1960s.
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The Atanasoff-Berry Computer
Atanasoff and Berry invented the first automatic electronic digital computer that has remained somewhat obscure. Atanasoff wanted to increase the speed and accuracy of scientific calculations through the development of a electronic computer. JVA (http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1942/) -
Invention of the Microchip
The microchip was created to help reduce the amount of space it took up by the electronic components and advanced circuits. Every chip, including the advanced central processing units, were made/use the same fundamental microchip designed and pioneer Jack Kilby.
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IBM 7030 ("Stretch")
The IBM was the fastest computer in the world from 1961 until the first CDC 6600, even though people said it was slower than expected. The Stretch project played a major role in design, management, and manufacturing.
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Atlas Computer
The Atlas Computer was used for the storage capacity that switched rapidly among multiple programs or users, while having to share the time among others. The Atlas Computer was the most powerful computer at the time and when Atlas went offline half of the United Kingdom's computer capacity was lost.
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Bell 103 Modem
AT&T Corporation released the second commercial modem for computers in 1962. The Bell 103 used two different types of audio frequency-shift keying to encode data.
~There was the originating station which used the mark tone of 1,270 Hz
~Then there was the answering station which used a mark tone of 2,225 Hz
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Computer RAM
The Willams tube started the first practical form of RAM. RAM is a volatile type, to where when information is stored and you lose power than everything is removed.
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Interface Message Processor
The very first IMP that was delivered was to at group at UCLA lead by Leonard Kleinrock's. A Massachusetts-based company named Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) were told to be contracted and build 4 IMPS before Labor Day. It took them all 12 months to complete the entire network.
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ARPANET- 1st Network Invented
The ARPANET was created during the Cold War and was the first network that used the TCP/IP protocol. It used packet switching and developed into the Internet in 1982. Wikipedia -
History of the Floppy Disks
Floppy disk were the revolution in the computer industry when it was developed by IBM in the late 1960s and was the inexpensive method for loading microcode to their individual System/370 computer. Floppy disks needed a lot of improvements on the available storage capacity and reducing their physical size.
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Ethernet
Ethernet is now used to help in the industrial businesses and applications that quickly helps replace legacy data transmission systems in the world's telecommunications networks. Ethernet is a system that is used for connecting a number of computer systems to help form a local are of networks.
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Apple Computer
In the 1990s, Apple had faced rocky sales and low market sharing. The founders of Apple Inc. were Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak who also incorporated the company in the 1977s.
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Apple Lisa
The word Lisa stood for Local Integrated System Architecture. Apple Lisa was one of the first computers to have a graphical user interface known as GUI. It had many changes during the development period before shipping at a very high price.
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SIG Bluetooth
The Bluetooth SIG has been a member over more than 30,000 companies worldwide. There were five companies that helped established the SIG, and they were Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Toshiba and Nokia.
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Macintosh Mouse
A veteran named Douglas C. Engelbart, who passed away at the age of 88 was the first person to invent the computer mouse until Apple released the Macintosh. The model of the mouse was model M0100.
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