Technology History Project

By CB3211
  • Z4

    Royal Pingdom No date
    The Z4 was designed by the German engineer Konard Zuse. The Z4 used about 4,000 watts of power and ran at approximately 40 Hz. One addition took .04 seconds with a 64 32-registers.
  • ENIAC Invented

    WikipediaThe ENIAC was the first digital computer and cost almost $500,000. The machine was the size of a small gym ans contained over 17,000 vacuum tubes.
  • Whirlwind

    Royal PingdomNo date
    The Whirlwind was the first computer to have a video display for output. The first version could do 20,000 instructions per second. When the memory was doubled, it was the fastest of its time.
  • AT&T Dataphone

    Computer History
    No date
    The dataphone was the first commercial modem with digital computer data to analog signals for transmission across its long distance network. Bell Laboritories' digital data sets into commercial products.
  • UNVICA 1108

    Royal Pingdom
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    The UNVICA 1108 supported three CPUs with a 262, 144 36-bit word memory. The integrated circuits was used or memory instead of film core memory in its processor.
  • Alto

    Computer History
    No date
    The researchers from Xerox Palo Alto Research Centere designed the Alto to be the first to have a work station with a built-in mouse input. The Alto was able to hold many files in windows, offered menus and icons, and could connect to local networks. Was later used as personal and stations computers for engineers.
  • Apple I

    Computer History
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    Steve Wozniak made the Apple I for hobbyists. His friend Steve Jobs helped him make the company Apple Computer Inc. Before they announced Apple II, they sold 200 boards of Apple I.
  • Apple II

    Computer History
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    The Apple II was an instant success with its printed circuit motherboard, switching power supply, keyboard, case assembly, manual, game paddles, A/C powercord, and cassette tape with computer game. The Apple II was the best computer with its graphics.
  • TRS-80

    Computer History
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    Tandy's Radio Shacks first computer sold 10,000 units in the first month it was out. The TRS-80 had a Z80 based microprocessor, a video display, 4 kilobytes of memory, BASIC, cassette storage, and easy to understand manuals. The TRS-80 only cost $599.95.
  • ARPANET

    Computer History
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    The ARPANET was used for military to collaborate (MILNET) and a way for researchers in universities. It was a standard networking system that got renamed in 1995 to "INTERNET."
  • Apple Macintosh

    Computer History
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    The Macintosh was the first successful mouse-driven computer with graphic user inference. The Macintosh was based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor and had a lot of the same features from the Lisa, the first personal computer with graphical user inference.
  • NeXT

    Computer Historyno date
    Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple, revealed the NeXT. The computer ran to slow so not many were sold. But a good thing about the NeXT was that it was the first personal computer to have a drive for optical storage disk. The NeXT also had voice recognition different languages to simpily program.
  • Mosaic Browser

    Computer History
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    Mosaic allowed graphical access to content on the internet. It was the first commercail computer that allowed it. The Mosaic was suppose to be designed for Unix running X-windows with different operating sysytems like Mac OS, Windows, and AmigaOS.
  • Google and Facebook

    Corbin Ballno date
    Google got over 8 million wed pages to be put on the website.
    Facebook was only meant to be used by Harvard students at this time. Now over millions of users have Facebook.
  • Amazon Kindle Fire

    Corbin Ball
    Amazon released the Kindle Fire tablet computer/eReader and sold more than 25 million by the end of that year.
  • OS X Mavericks

    Apple
    no date
    The world's most advanced operating system.
    Coming this fall.
  • iPhone 5s

    Apple
    September 20, 2013 is when you can prerder the iPhone 5s.
    On the iPhone 5s, it has the new iOS 7 already installed in it. You can also use your fringerprint as your password for iTunes, locking phone, and it is the first 64-bit smartphone in the world.