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Hewlett-Packard is Founded
Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which rapidly becomes a popular piece of test equipment for engineers -
Project Whirlwind
During World War II, the U.S. Navy approached the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) about building a flight simulator to train bomber crews. The team first built a large analog computer, but found it inaccurate and inflexible. After designers saw a demonstration of the ENIAC computer, they decided on building a digital computer. -
Harvard Mark-1
Conceived by Harvard professor Howard Aiken, and designed and built by IBM, the Harvard Mark-1 was a room-sized, relay-based calculator. The machine had a fifty-foot long camshaft that synchronized the machine’s thousands of component parts. -
Maurice Wilkes assembled the EDSAC
the first practical stored-program computer, at Cambridge University. His ideas grew out of the Moore School lectures he had attended three years earlier. -
Engineering Research Associates
the company´s first customer was the U.S. Navy. It held 1 million bits on its magnetic drum, the earliest magnetic storage devices. -
MIT´s Whirlwind
"See It Now" television series. Project director Jay Forrester described the computer as a "reliable operating system," running 35 hours a week at 90-percent utility using an electrostatic tube memory -
Felker and Harris program TRADIC
AT&T Bell Laboratories announced the first fully transistorized computer, TRADIC. It contained nearly 800 transistors instead of vacuum tubes. -
The precursor to the minicomputer
DEC´s PDP-1 sold for $120,000. 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. It´s large scope intrigued early hackers at MIT, who wrote the first computerized video game, SpaceWar! -
The Department of Defense Advanced Research
the University of Illinois to build a large parallel processing computer, the ILLIAC IV, 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. -
Victor Scheinman´s Stanford
Arm made a breakthrough as the first successful electrically powered, computer-controlled robot arm. By 1974, the Stanford Arm could assemble a Ford Model T water pump, guiding itself with optical and contact sensors. -
Xerox Palo Alto
designed the Alto — the first work station with a built-in mouse for input. The Alto stored several files simultaneously in windows, offered menus and icons, and could link to a local area network. -
Terminator 2
Director James Cameron’s sequel to his 1984 hit “The Terminator,” featured ground-breaking special effects done by Industrial Light & Magic. Made for a record $100 million, it was the most expensive movie ever made at the time. Most of this cost was due to the expense of computer-generated special effects (such as image morphing) throughout the film. Terminator 2 is one of many films that critique civilization’s frequent blind trust in technology. -
Xbox 1
The Xbox One is almost upon us. Coming in just a couple of months time this will be the first new truly next-gen console to buy in the UK and a replacement for the Xbox 360 after an incredible eight years in service. We've gathered together everything we know about the console, plus a round-up of all the latest rumours and leaks to fill in the gaps. -
play ststion 4
Sony hosted a media event at the Gamescon conference in Cologne, Germany, where it outlined more details of its release plan for the new videogame console. The device will still carry the previously announced $399 starting price tag — $100 below the Xbox One — and will roll out to European and Latin America markets by Nov. 29. -
i phone 5 s
Instead, Apple introduced a lower-cost iPhone 5C alongside the iPhone 5S -- the company's flagship smartphone.
