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Colossus
WikipediaThe devoloper of the Colossus Tommy Flowers. The computer was made for special-purpose electronic digital programmable. -
ENIAC invented
SourceThe very first computer, it cost 500,000 dollars. The ENIAC was invented for military purposes during WWII to launch missles. -
Harwell Dekatron
WikipediaThis computer still has some parts from it that we are still using to this day. The most interesting thing is, it weighed 2.5 tons. That's 5,000 pounds. -
Hard Drive
Source is a data storage device used for storing and retrieving digital information using rapidly rotating disks coated with magnetic material. An HDD retains its data even when powered off. -
Tablet
Source A tablet is a mobile computer with display, circuitry and battery in a single unit. Tablets are equipped with sensors, including cameras, microphone, accelerometer and touchscreen, with finger or stylus gestures replacing computer mouse and keyboard. -
Laptop
SourceLaptops are used to be portable and usable at the same time. Laptops are commonly used in a variety of settings, including work, education, and personal multimedia. -
Cray-1
SourceThe Cheif engineer was Cray Research co-founder Lester Davis. The Cray-1 was built as a 64-bit system, a departure from the 7600/6600, which were 60-bit machines. -
Ethernet
SourceThe idea was first documented in a memo that Metcalfe wrote on May 22, 1973. Ethernet was able to adapt to market realities and shift to inexpensive and ubiquitous twisted pair wiring. -
Printer
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The printer is for people to print off a paper copy. Personal printers are primarily designed to support individual users, and may be connected to only a single computer. -
Speakers
Computer speakers range widely in quality and in price. The computer speakers typically packaged with computer systems are small, plastic, and have mediocre sound quality. -
Wireless Network
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A wireless network is any type of computer network that uses wireless data connections for connecting network nodes. Examples of wireless networks include cell phone networks, Wi-Fi local networks and terrestrial microwave networks. -
Bluetooth
sourceBluetooth can be used for communicating and connection. Many of the services offered over Bluetooth can expose private data or allow the connecting party to control the Bluetooth device. -
Deep Blue
SourceDeep Blue the chess computer, beat the world champion Garry Kasparov two to one in a three game draw. In the opening book there were over 4,000 positions and 700,000 grandmaster games. -
IPhone
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There are seven generations of the IPhone. Apple invented IPhone to be a smartphone. IPhone is one of the most popular phones in the U.S. -
Watson
This crazy computer could get asked questions from our natural language and answers them. This computer was on jeopardy and won it of course. It also had access to 200 million pages of structured and unstructured content consuming four terabytes of disk storage.
