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In 1940 Stibitz demonstrated the CNC at an American mathematical society conference held at Dartmouth College. This was most likely the first example of remote access computing. -
Professor Howard Aiken designed and built the IBM which is the first room sized, relay- based calculator. The machine used thousands of parts to put together and over 3,500 relays. -
This system used a unique vacuum channel of keeping a loop of tape circulating between 2 points allowing the tape to drive to start and stop the tape in a split second. -
They developed this device specifically for internal uses like to put more calls on each of the main lines connecting their own switching centers. -
Virtual memory permitted a computer to use its storage capacity to switch rapidly among multiple programs or users. -
The outcome of this work is a read- only, 8 inch, 80 kilobyte floppy disk and disk drive which was the worlds first. -
ARPA funded the outfitting of a packet radio network. A related set of experiments test our voice over, this will also play a huge role in 1977 as a major birthplace for the internet. -
A computer was not actually installed in the white house until the Carter administration put one in. Staffers were given terminals to access a shared Hewlett- Packard computer and the technology department acquired a Xerox Alto for the Oval Office. -
The American electronic game market had been depressed due to a glut of poorly performing games and consoles. the same year, Nintendo its famicom gaming system in Japan. -
VTech, founded in Hong Kong, had been a manufacturer of pong- like games and educational toys when they introduced the Laser 128 computer.