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Man and paper
The first computer was literally a man with a pencil doing equations. -
Difference Engine
The Difference engine was created by Charles Babbage, it was designed to calculate a series of values and print results automatically in a table. -
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Computer History
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Telephone
The first ever telephone was created by Alexander Graham Bell. The telephone was invented to communicate from one place to another without having to be next to the person. -
Colossus
Tommy Flowers created colossus after he developed the idea from Alan Turing. He did this using valves. This was used to help break the codes from the Germans during World War ll.
The Electronic Calculator computed scientific data. -
Electronic Calculator
The Electronic Calculator computed scientific data. Speed: 50 multiplications per second. -
Census Bureau
The UNIVAC 1 delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau, was the first commercial computer to attract the public. Remington Rand eventually sold 48 computers at $1 million each and $185,000 for a high speed printer. -
The 701
IBM Shipped its first ever electronic computer after 3 years of production. IBM sold 19 machines to research laboratories, federal government and aircraft companies. -
The Alto
Researchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Research centre designed the Alto, the first work station with a built in mouse for input. The alto can store files in windows. Offered menus and icons and it can like to a local area network. Although Xerox never sold the Alto commercially it gave them to a number of universities. Later on engineers incorporated its features into workstations and personal computers. -
The Osborne 1
Adam Osborne created the world’s first portable computer. It weighed 24 pounds and cost $1,795. The machine produced a 5 inch display, 54 kilobytes of memory and two 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drives. -
The Amiga 1000
The Amiga 1000 was sold for $1,292 dollars (without a monitor) and had audio and video capabilities beyond the ones in most personal computers during the 1980’s.
