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CDC 6600 Supercomputer Introduced
The CDC ( Control Data Corporation 6600 performs up to 3 million instructions per second. The is 3 times faster than that of its closest competitor, the IBM 7030 supercomputer. The 6600 retained the distinction of being the fastest computer in the world. Until it was surpassed by its successor. the CDC 7600 in, 1968. Part of the speed came from the computer's design, it used 10 small computers, known as peripheral processing units, to offload the workload from the central processor. -
Complex Number Calculator
In 1940 George Stibitz demonstrated the CNC ( complex number calculator) at an American Mathematical Society conference it was held at Dartmouth College. George amazed the group by performing calculations remotely on the CNC using a Teletype terminal connected to New York special telephone lines. This is most likely the first example of remote access computing. -
Z3
Konrad Zeus finishes the Z3 computer. It was built by a German engineer Konrad was working in complete isolation from developments elsewhere, it uses 2,300 relays, it has 22- bit word length. It was used for aerodynamic calculations. It was a fully program-operational calculating machine. It got destroyed in a bombing raid on Berlin in late 1943. He reconstruction the Z3 in the 1960s. This is on display in the Deutsches Museum in Munich -
Digital Phone Lines
Phone companies developed digital transmission for internal uses specifically to put more calls on each of the main lines connection their one switching centers. This produced the T1 standard still used in North America. -
IBM 1311 Disk Storage Drive
The disk storage drive was announced on October 11, 1962. The IBM was the first disk drive IBM made with a removable disk pack. Each disk pack weight about 10 pounds, it held 6 disks, it also had a capacity of 2 million characters. These disks rotated at 1,500 RPM and were accessed by a hydraulic actuator with one head per disk. 1311 offered some of the advantages of both tapes and disks. -
First IBM Computer To use semiconductor memory
In a departure from using magnetic core memory technology, IBM introduces the System 370 Model 145 mainframe computer, the company's first all semiconductor memory computer. The Model 145 could store an equivalent amount of data in half the space. compared to a computer using a core memory. -
Birth of Modern Mobile Networks
In 1973, ARPA funds the outfitting of a packet radio research van at SRI to develop standers for a Packet Radio Network ( PRNET ). The unmarked van drives through the San Francisco Bay Area, stuffed full of hackers and sometimes with uniformed generals, it is pioneering wireless, packet-switched digital networked. This includes the kind our mobile phones use today. A related set of experiments test out Voice Over IP. The van will also play a huge role in 1977 as a birthplace for the Internet. -
3.5 inch floppy drive
Sony introduced the first 3.5-inch floppy drives and diskettes in 1981. The first significant company to adopt the 3.5 inch floppy for generalizing was Hewlett- Pachard in 1982, an event that was critical in establishing momentum for the format and which helped it prevail over the other contenders for the microfloppy standard, including 3 inches. 3.25 inch, and 3.9-inch formats. -
Creative Arts releases the first SoundBlaster
Demands for improved graphics and sound for personal computer games encourage companies to build add-on sound cards for the IBM PC, with the SoundBlaster family of sound cards becoming the industry standards. Many of these competing cards were similar, but since the SoundBlaster had an additional game port, within a year it had become the best selling expansion card for the IBM PC. For more than a decade, SoundBlaster cards were among the top-selling sound cards on the market. -
The MacBook Air is released
Apple introduced their first ultra notebook- a light, think laptop with high- capacity battery. The Air incorporated many of the technologies that had been associated with Apple's MacBook line of laptops, including an integrated camera, and WI-Fi capabilities. To reduce its size, the traditional hard drove was replaced with a solid-state disk,, the first mass-market computer to do so.
