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Hewlett-Packard is Founded
David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator. -
Project Whirlwind begins
During World War II, the U.S. Navy approached the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.The team first built a large analog computer, but found it inaccurate and inflexible -
The Mathematical Theory of Communication
Claude Shannon showed engineers how to code data so they could check for accuracy after transmission between computers. -
ERA 1101
Engineering Research Associates of Minneapolis built the ERA 1101, the first commercially produced computer. -
John von Neumann´s IAS
John von Neumann´s IAS computer became operational at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, N.J. Contract obliged the builders to share their designs with other research institutes. This resulted in a number of clones: the MANIAC at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, the ILLIAC at the University of Illinois, the Johnniac at Rand Corp. -
DEC´s PDP-1
The precursor to the minicomputer,One of 50 built, the average PDP-1 included with a cathode ray tube graphic display, needed no air conditioning and required only one operator. -
IBM announced the System/360
a family of six mutually compatible computers and 40 peripherals that could work together. The initial investment of $5 billion was quickly returned as orders for the system climbed to 1,000 per month within two years -
The Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contracted with the University of Illinois to build a large parallel processing computer
which did not operate until 1972 at NASA´s Ames Research Center. The first large-scale array computer, the ILLIAC IV achieved a computation speed of 200 million instructions per second, about 300 million operations per second, and 1 billion bits per second of I/O transfer via a unique combination of parallel architecture and the overlapping or "pipe-lining" structure of its 64 processing elements. -
Data General Corp
started by a group of engineers that had left Digital Equipment Corp., introduced the Nova, with 32 kilobytes of memory, for $8,000.In the photograph, Ed deCastro, president and founder of Data General, sits with a Nova minicomputer. -
The Kenbak-1
the first personal computer, advertised for $750 in Scientific American. Designed by John V. Blankenbaker using standard medium-scale and small-scale integrated circuits, the Kenbak-1 relied on switches for input and lights for output from its 256-byte memory -
Commodore 64
sold for $595, came with 64KB of RAM and featured impressive graphics. Thousands of software titles were released over the lifespan of the C64. By the time the C64 was discontinued in 1993, it had sold more than 22 million units -
Thinking Machines Corp
The machine´s system of connections and switches let processors broadcast information and requests for help to other processors in a simulation of brainlike associative recall. The machine used up to 65,536 processors and could complete several billion operations per second -
iphone 5
The Apple iPhone 5s is now official! It comes with the first 64-bit system chip ever put in a smartphone, a fingerprint scanner and an 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash and a larger sensor. Most of the rumors turned out true -
2020 timeline contents
By 2020, the next major cellular wireless standard has been adopted.* This continues the trend seen since 1981 in which a new mobile generation has appeared roughly every 10th year. The 5G family of standards is a major leap from previous generations in terms of power and functionality. Among its key features are -
Texting by thinking
In addition to 5G, phones are now available with the option of texting by thought power alone.* This is achieved by a combination of eye-tracking technology and a sensor-mounted headset worn by the user. The headset contains a brain-machine interface which detects electrical brain waves and converts them into digital signals, then displays the resulting letters on-screen
