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inventors of the modern computer
howard aiken and grace hopper desighned the MARK series of computers at harvard university. the 5 ton device contaied almost 760,000 separate pieces -
eniav
the eniac cost almost 500,000 to build the was the size of a large room. it weighed just under 30 tons and was built for the U.S. military -
stanford research institue
reasearchers at standord invented "ERMA", the Electronic recording method of accounting computer processing system. They began as a project for the bank of America in an effort to computerize the banking industry. -
UNIVAC
the Census Bureau accepted delivery of the first UNIVAC computer. The final cost of constructing the first UNIVAC was clost to one million dollars -
inventing spacewar
A young computer programmer from MIT, steve russell fueled with inspoiration from the writings of E.E. "doc" smith* , led the team** that created the first popular computer game. starwar was almost the first computer game ever written. -
inventors of the modern computer
the newley formed intel company publicly released the 1103, the first DRAM chip, and by 1972 it was the best selling semicondutor chip in the world, defeating the magnetic, the first commercially available computer using the 1103 was the hp 9800 series. -
computer microprocessors
a company called intel publicly introduced the world's first single chip microprocessor. the intel 4004 chip took the integrated circiut down one step further by placing all the parts that made a computer think on one small chip. -
apple 1,2,3
steve wpzniak was working for Hewett Packard by day and playing computer hobbyist by night. wozniak realized that the prices of some computer parts had gotten solow that he could buy then with maybe a month's salary. -
word star
wordstar was the first commercially successful word processing sorfware program produced for microcomputers and the bes t selling software program of the early eighties. -
microsoft windows
microsoft promised that the new product would be on the shelf by april 1984. windows might have been released under the original name of iterface manager if marketing whiz -
invention of the apple macintosh
apple computers ran its' famouse macintosh televison commercial, on a small unknown station colely to make the commercial eligible for awards during 1984. the commercial cost 1.5 million and only ran once in 1983, but news and talk shows everywhere replayed it, making TV history. -
microsoft
microsoft shipped windows 3.0 on may 22. compatible with DOS programs, the first successful version of windows finally offered good enough performance to satisfy PC user. microsoft released windows amid a $10 million publicity blitz. -
new millennium
apple macintosh was slowly washed out, and windows alpha was being abandoned. AMD has the fastest processor ont he market but Intel's market share is bigger. -
market loses it's drive
what changed here is that for most ordinary users a budget-PC was fast enogh, putting pressure on PC- sales and profits. along with that you see an increasing demand for low-power devices. -
still x86 everywhere
sales of ARM rise, as tablets and smartphones replace more and more funcionality of the PC. intel tries to enter the smartphone-market with moorestown and focuses on a promising netwbook market.