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History of computers
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Colossus
CollossusColossus, created by Tommy Flowers, was the first elctronic digital computer that was programable these computers were developed to help British codebreakers during World War 2 decipher codes form the allied forces' long list of encrypted messages. -
UNIVAC
UNIVACThe first commercially successful electronic computer designed for both numerical and textual information was created by J. Presper Eckert. -
Spacewar
One of the first digital computer games. Created by Steve "Slug" Russell, Martin "Shag" Graetz, and Wayne Wiitanen.
The game was a two player game where each of the players take control of a spaceship and try to shoot each other as a star in the center of the screen pulls both players toward it. For emergency use only you can use hyperspace to teleport to a random place on the screen with the possibility of exploding if used too often. -
Atlas
AtlasThe Atlas was considered to be one of the most powerful computers if not the most powerful computer at the time of its release. The computer was created in a joint opperation by the Universities of Manchester, Ferranti, and Plessey, and was decommissioned in 1971 -
PDP-8
The first commercially successful minicomputer and was produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It sold more than 50,000 systems which was more than any other computer up to that date. The head designer of this computer was Edson de Castro. https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/PDP-8.html -
CDC 6000 series
This series of supercomputers consisted of four basic units the 6400, 6500, 6600, and the 6700. All we're created by the Control Data Corporation. The computers were priced at 5 to 9 million dollars and were known for being extremely fast and highly unreliable. These computers were the fastest computers of there time and the fastest one had a speed of 36.4 MHz. http://www.moorecad.com/standardpascal/cdc6400.html -
Altair 8800
This computer, created by Micro Instrumental Telemetry Systems (MITS), is considered by many to be the first personal computer- computers that are affordable and easily obtained. http://oldcomputers.net/altair-8800.html -
Apple 1
The first Apple product. Was built in Steve Job's garage along with Steve Wozniac and Ronald Wayne. Did not come with a monitor and sold for 666.66$ because they liked repeating numbers and had no idea that it had any religious significance............ Or so they say. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I -
TRS-80
Was one of the earliest mass-produced personal computers. Was very popular with hobbyists, home-users, and small businesses. Was produced by Tandy, Commodore, and Apple in what was called the 1977 Trinity. http://oldcomputers.net/trs80i.html -
Commodore VIC-20
Was the first computer to sell over 1 Million units. This computer was cheap and was not used often in businesses but many people loved to play games on it. http://oldcomputers.net/vic20.html -
Macintosh 128K
Macintosh 128KThe first computer to feature a mouse. This computer also featured a handle on the top for easier transportation. Was introduced by a now famous $900,000 commercial by Ridely Scott during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, 1984. -
NeXT
When Steve Jobs left Apple he created a company named NeXT Inc. The NeXT computer he created in this company was not as commercially succesful as many of the other computers during its time of release due to its having a slower processer. Steve Jobs later returned to Apple. -
Windows 3.1
A series of 16 bit operating systems that were the successors to windows 3.0. The series was later suppressed by windows 95. These computers introduced many improvements to the still MS-DOS-based platform, including improved system stability, expanded support for multimedia, TrueType fonts, and workgroup networking. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x
