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Computer History
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HP 200A Audio Oscillator
Hewlett Packard isfounded. David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett Packard in a Palo Alto California garage. Walt Disney ordered eight of the 200B model to use as sound effects generators for the 1940 movie “Fantasia.” -
The Complex Nuber Calculator (CNC)
The CNC is completed in 1939 but released in 1940. Bell Telephone laboratories completed this calculator. It was
designed by researcher George Stibitz. -
The Zuse Z3 Computer
The person who completed this computer was a German man
Konrad Zuse. Named after himself, it was made in complete
isolation. -
The Atanasoff Berry Computer AKA (ABC)
The ABC was completed after a successful demonstration of a proof-of-concept prototype in 1939. -
Project Whirlwind
This creation began during world war II in the U.S navy. Approached by the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MiT) about building a flight simulator to train bomber crews. -
Harvard Mark-1
Harvard Mark-1 is completed and conceived by Harvard professor Howard Aiken and designed and built by IBM, the Harvard Mark-
1 was room-sized, relay-based calculator. -
ENIAC
In February, the public got its first glimpse of ENIAC, a machine built by John Mauchly and J. This project started in 1943. -
IBM's SSEC
IBM’s SSEC, also known as Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator computed scientific data in public display near the
company’s Manhattan headquarters. -
Wilks with EDSAC
Maurice Wilkes assembled the EDSAC, the first practical stored program computer at Cambridge University. His heads grew out of the Moore school lectures he attended 3 years earlier. -
ERA 1101 drum memory
ERA, AKA Engineering Research Associates of Minneapolis built in the ERA 1101, the first company produced computer; the company’s first customer was the US Navy.
