Technology History Project

By MP3099
  • Z4 Invented

    Z4 Invented
    Retro Pingdom (There is no specific date that I could find) The machine was designed by the German engineer Konrad Zuse. The Z4 used about 4,000 watts of power and ran at approximately 40 Hz.
  • ENIAC Invented

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

    Whirlwind Invented
    Retro PIngdom The Whirlwind was the first computer to use video displays for outputs. The first version had 512 byte of main memory and could do 20,000 instructions per second.
  • Pegasus Invented

     Pegasus Invented
    href='http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/12/11/retro-delight-gallery-of-early-computers-1940s-1960s/' >Royal Pingdom</a> (Not sure of the exact date) The British computer Ferranti Pegasus was designed and built to be cheap. A Pegasus 2 from 1959 is still working at the Science Museum in London adn is the world’s oldest working digital computer.
  • AKAT-1 Invented

    AKAT-1 Invented
    Royal Pingdom (Not sure of the exact date) The Polish AKAT-1 was the world’s first transistor-based differential analyzer. It was designed specifically to solve systems of differential equations and was never mass produced due to the country’s policies at that time.
  • DEC PDP-1

    DEC PDP-1
    Computer History I didnt the exact date when it was invented. The first DEC PDP-1 was sold for $120,000. It included no air condition and only required only one operator.
  • Xerox Alto

    Xerox Alto
    Computer History Not sure of the exact date. The Alto was the very first computer with a built-in mouse for an input. The Alto stored several files in windows, offered menus and icons, and could link to a local area network.
  • Ethernet

    Ethernet
    dcsI am not sure of the exact date. !n 1976, Xerox built a 2.94 Mbps network to connect over 100 personal workstations on a 1 km cable. The network was called the Ethernet which is a single coaxial cable used to connect the machines.
  • Osborne I

    Osborne I
    Computer History Not sure of the exact date. Adam Osborne completed the Osborne I which weighed 24 pounds and cost $1,795. The price was very reasonable because there is a software in the machine worth about $1,500.
  • Microsoft

    Microsoft
    Tech History I am not sure of the exact date. Microsoft 95 was first released in August. On the release, over 1 million copies were sold in only four days.
  • Cable

    Cable
    Compnet Working I am not sure of the exact date. High-speed home networking struggled in 1997 and 1998. Cable modem was the first opiton availabe to msot people, but only a few 100,000 subscribed to Internet cable in that first year.
  • DSL

    DSL
    Compnet NetworkingI am not sure of the exact date. In 1999, the DSL cam in, The DSL availability remained limited at the beginning.
  • Pocket PC 2000

    Pocket PC 2000
    Computer Hope The first real iteration of Windows Mobile was called the Pocket PC. It was released on April 19, 2000.
  • Mainstream Usage

    Mainstream Usage
    Comonet WorkingI am not sure of the exact date. In 2001, the home broadband entered the mainstream usage and begin growing way faster than the Internet dial-up services. The networking industry continues to upgrade broadband because in the they are searching for new and exciting Internet applications.
  • Windows Mobile

    Windows Mobile
    Computer Hope The Windows Mobile 2003 was realeased on June 23, 2003. It was produced by the Windows Phone operating system and apps running on Windows Mobile weren't working with Windows Phone.