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Old Computer
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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 Oscillato and was popular really quickly to engineers -
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) is completed
Computer was completed after the proof of concept prototype. Built at Iowa State College, the ABC ( Atanasoff-Berry Computer) was designed and built by Professor John Vincent. -
Harvard Mark-1 is completed
Harvard professor Howard Aiken designed the computer but it was built by IBM. The Harvard Mark-1 was a room-sized. -
John von Neumann´s IAS Computer
This 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. -
MIT researchers built the TX-0
This was one of the first computer that was programable with transmitors. Transmitors where placed inside a bottle the sam as a vaccum tube. -
IBM announced the System/360
A family of six mutually compatible computers and 40 peripherals that could work together to make it better. The initial investment of $5 billion was quickly returned. -
Digital Equipment Corp. introduced the PDP-8
One of the first commercially successful minicomputers.The PDP-8 was sold for $18,000 at its minimum. -
The Kenbak-1, the first personal computer
This computer was 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. -
Researchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center designed the Alto
The Alto stored several files simultaneously in windows and offered menus and icons. The company never sole the computer commercially.
