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Zuse Computers
Source Despite early unreliability, Zuse’s vacuum tube Z22 became a workhorse for academic and industrial research. Zuse sold 56 in the face of fierce competition from IBM. -
First Programmable Computer
Source The Z1 was created by German Konrad Zuse in his parents' living room between 1936 and 1938. It is considered to be the first electro-mechanical binary programmable computer, and the first really functional modern computer. -
The first Stored Programmer Computer
Source The early British computer known as the EDSAC is considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. The computer performed its first calculation on May 6, 1949 and was the computer that ran the first graphical computer game, nicknamed "Baby". -
Ferranti Computers
Source The title of “first commercially available general-purpose computer” probably goes to Britain’s Ferranti Mark I. About nine of them were sold between 1951 and 1957. -
The first computer with Ram
Source MIT intoduces the Whirlwind Machine on Marc, 8 1955, a revolutionary computer with magnetic core ram and real time graphics. -
Acoustically coupled modem
Source John van Geen of the Stanford Research Institute vastly improved the acoustically coupled modem. His receiver reliably detected bits of data despite background noise heard over long-distance phone lines. -
Laser Printers
Source The Dover was a prototype for Xerox’s first commercial laser printer, the 9700, which printed 120 pages per minute on standard paper. -
Arpanet
SourceArpanet was the basis that was created for the internet. It was created to be able to share and communicate with scientific users. -
The Cray-1 Supercomputer
Source Featuring a central column surrounded by a padded, circular seat, the Cray-1 looked like no other computer. And performed like no other computer. It reigned as the world’s fastest from 1976 to 1982. -
The first Apple computer
Source The Apple I (Apple 1) was the first Apple computer that originally sold for $666.66. The computer kit was developed by Steve Wozniak in 1976 and contained a 6502 8-bit processor and 4 kb of memory, which was expandable to 8 or 48 kb using expansion cards. -
The Apple II
Source Steve Wozniak designed the Apple II in 1977. The self-contained unit housed electronics, keyboard and power supply, with the BASIC language in permanent memory. A TV served as the display. -
The first portable computer
Source The first portable computer was the Osborne I. The Osborne I weighed 24.5 pounds, had a 5-inch display, 64 KB of memory, two 5 1/4" floppy drives, ran the CP/M 2.2 operating system, included a modem, and cost US$1,795. -
Nokia 9000 Comunicator
Source The phone and handheld computer interfaces of the Communicator series remain purposefully separate and full-sized. The 9000 was used by Val Kilmer in the 1997 remake of The Saint. -
Atanasoff Berry Computer
Source Mathematician and physicist John Atanasoff, looking for ways to solve equations automatically, took a drive to clear his thoughts in 1937. At a Mississippi River roadhouse he jotted on a napkin the basic features of an electronic computing machine. Atanasoff’s linear equation-solver, built with graduate student Clifford Berry, could solve a variety of problems but was not programmable. -
Creation of CDC 7600
Source The CDC 7600 was the Seymour Cray-designed successor to the CDC 6600, extending Control Data's dominance of the supercomputer field into the 1970s.
