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Hewlett-Packard (aka HP)
David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which rapidly becomes a popular piece of test equipment for engineers.
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The Complex Number Calculator
The Complex Number Calculator (CNC) was completed in 1939, by the Bell Telephone Laboratories company, designed by researcher George Stibitz. This machine was later demonstrated at a conference in 1940.
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The Z3 Computer
The Z3 Computer was an early computer built by German engineer Konrad Zuse. It used 2,300 relays and a floating point binary arithmetic.
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ERA 1101
The ERA was the first commercially produced computer. It's first customer was the U.S. Navy. It held 1 million bits on its magnetic drum. It was built by the engineering research associates.
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IAS Computer
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.
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The LINC Computer
The LINC (Laboratory Instrumentation Computer) offered the first real time laboratory data processing. It was designed by Wesley Clark at Lincoln Laboratories.
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ARPANET
Started by the U.S. Dept. of defence for research in networking. It was opened to non-military users later in the 1970s and many universities. It is nicknamed the "superhighway."
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Kenbak-1
The first personal computer created by John B. Blankenbaker. It uses small scale circuits, and relies on switches for input and lights for output. Kenbak corp. only sold 40 of them, then closed the buisness.
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Ethernet
Ethernet was developed in 1973. This became a vero popular way of connecting PCs and other computers together - to enable them to share data, and devices such as printer.
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The Lisa
Apple introduced its Lisa. The first personal computer with a graphical user interface, its development was central in the move to such systems for personal computers. The Lisa´s sloth and high price ($10,000) led to its ultimate failure.
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TCP/IP
TCP/IP became the official protocol of ARPANET (which became the Internet). TCP/IP still forms the basis of the Internet today.
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Macintosh
Apple Computer launched the Macintosh, the first successful mouse-driven computer with a graphic user interface, with a single $1.5 million commercial during the 1984 Super Bowl. Based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor, the Macintosh included many of the Lisa´s features at a much more affordable price: $2,500.
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The Pentium microprocessor
The Pentium microprocessor is released. The Pentium was the fifth generation of the ‘x86’ line of microprocessors from Intel. The Pentium introduced several advances that made programs run faster such as the ability to execute several instructions at the same time and support for graphics and music. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1993 -
Microsoft surface pro 3
The tablet/laptop has a 12 inch screen with an amazing processor. It also includes a rear kick stand and a detachable keyboard. A Surface Pro 3 with a keyboard is indistinguishable in performance from most notebooks, yet it has all the tablet features that users also crave.
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IBM System/360
IBM announced the System/360, a family of six mutually compatible computers and 40 peripherals that could work together.
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