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Z3 Compueter
Electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse. First working fully programable, fully automatic computing machine. -
Colossus MK2
First electronic, Digital programable computer. Used to help read encrypted german messages. -
ENIAC
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, The first general pupouse computer. It was capable of being reprogramed to solve a range of computing problems -
UNIVAC I
First commercially produced computer in the U.S. Predicted the results of the 1952 presidential election using 1% of the voting population. -
MIT Whirlwind
Developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. First computer to operate in real time, and to use video display for output. Led to the development of the U.S. Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system, and to the minicomputers. -
The Integrated Circut
The first integrated Circut was made by German engineer Werner Jacobi. However the idea really came forward when Jack Kilby worked with the US army to make small ceramic squares that contained a single minatureized component, that is aranged into a multidimentional grid. -
Sketchpad - first graphics program
Otherwise known as Robot Draftsman, a revolutionary computer program that changed the way people interact with computers. and led to the modern computer-aided drafting. -
Arpanet
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network was the worlds first packet switching network and the core network that composed the internet. -
Mother of All Demos
Douglas Engelbart demonstrated the experimental technologies of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word-processing, hypermedia, object addressing, dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaboritive real-time editor. -
Datapoint2200
A programable terminal designed by Phil Ray and Gus Roche. Was the predicessor to the IBM 8008 -
Intel 4004
The first complete CPU on one chip, also first commerically avalible microprocessor. -
Laser disks
first Optical medium storage
