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IBM introduced the electric typewriter
The Invention of a type writer was one of the first biggest electronic brake thru. Now instead of writing everything by hand you could type it out, a concept we still use today. -
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Project PX is released to the public
ENIAC was designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army. It boasted speeds one thousand times faster than electro-mechanical machines, this was made verry inportent in computer power. No other single machine has since matched that stranth.
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The IBM 650, aka the Magnetic Drum Calculator, is introduced
Marking a land stone for the creation of the computers we have today. The IBM 650 was the first mass-produced computer. -
DEC introduces the PDP-8
DEC is the first mass produced minicomputer at the unheard-of low price of $20.0000. The difference from the first mass produced computer to the computers we have now is amazing. -
The floppy disk is introduced.
The floppy disk was one of the first non-volatile Magnetic storage holders. Altho we don’t use floppy disks as much as we did at one point they are an important miles stone to the modern non-volatile Magnetic we have today. -
First Apple computer was made
Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak design and build the first Apple computers in the Jobs' family garage. It's not much more than a circuit board in a wooden box. But they build and sold 200 of them through Paul Terrell's Byte Shop. -
Cellular telephones test
Cellular telephones are first tested in Japan and Chicago. Cell Phones are not always considered a computer but really they are made up of a lot of the same components making this a large brake thru for modern computers and cell phones. -
QuickTime is released.
QuickTime a video compression format developed by Apple, is released. QuickTime is still the device we use on every mack when we open a video. -
Toy Story comes out.
Toy Story is the first full-length feature film to be completely computer generated. The technology that got put into making this movie was way beyond the other movies at that time. -
Apple releases the iMac
The IMac became one of the most powerful desk tops as well as having the creative features of the laptop. -
The iPad was introduced
The technology put into the touch screen and the power it can hold makes the IPad very important piece of technology. The IPad is one farthest consumer additions Apple has gone so fare.
