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The First Bombe is Completed
The Bombe was executed by Alan Turing and was completed middle of December 1994 making it a temporary project. Its a electro-mechanical way to encrypt and decrypt the communications during World War 2 of the Nazi ENIGMA-based military. The deliverable purpose is to improve the previous version of the Bomba making it a new unique project,whilst breaking down the secret German cipher messages which then provided the allies with the intentions of the enemy.
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ERA 1101 Introduced
This is the first computer to be commercialised. It was the first step towards smaller sized computers with decent performance. ERA 101 was the first computer to have within stored programs or stored apps as it had a one-megabit memory. The project resulted from World War II, the main purpose being Military Use. The project was carried out by Engineering Associates of Minneapolis after multiple research and trials, it's first customer was the US Navy. Fix - Quality
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EDSAC is completed
Led by Director of the Cambridge Computation Laboratory, Maurice Wilkes, the project team uniquely, created the second electronic digital stored-program computer to go into regular service, which was a temporary project.
EDSAC 1 finally shut down on 11 July 1958, which was superseded by EDSAC 2, which remained use until 1965.
The project deliverable was to create the first practical stored-program to provide regular computing service.
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MIT's Whirlwind Keyboard
Project manager, Bill Wolf creates the direct keyboard input on computers debuted on MIT's Whirlwind. This had been completed five years earlier. The now-common method of input was revolutionary at a time when programmers offered instructions to machines by inserting punch cards and changing dials and switches. This was rented out at ($1/yr) for 15 years by the project manager.
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The JOHNNIAC Open Shop System
JOHNNIAC, following a basic design of the previous IAS unit was one of the first users of magnetic core memory. JOSS could support many users with drum swapping.
Developed by engineers at PIAS. The project aimed to create a computer that could make scientific calculations and utilize a shared operating system implemented by a tablet input facility.
Temporary - Project running 13 years only.
Unique - First to implement scientific/engineering calculations.
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The Atlas computer
The high-performance Atlas computer was developed in the period 1956 – 1962 by a team led by Professor Tom Kilburn at the University of Manchester. The first production Atlas was inaugurated at Manchester University on 7th December 1962 by Sir John Cockcroft, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who was Director of the UK’s Atomic Energy Authority.
The University of Manchester's Atlas was decommissioned in 1971
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IBM Special Computer APL Machine Portable (SCAMP)
A PC developed and designed to run the APL programming language, in a compact, briefcase-like enclosure designed by Dr. Paul Friedl engineer at IBM's Los Gatos, California. The aim, to build the world’s first computer that could be used as a desktop calculator. This project was implemented to gain approval within IBM to promote and develop IBM’s 5100 family of computers.
Temporary - 6 months.
Unique - First attempt at a portable storage calculator.
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IBM Personal Computer (PC)
The first IBM PC, formally known as the IBM Model 5150, was based on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 microprocessor and used Microsoft´s MS-DOS operating system.
Created by a team of engineers under Don Estridge of the IBM ESD in Boca Raton, Florida.The IBM PC revolutionized business computing by becoming the first PC to be adopted by industry. The IBM PC was widely cloned and led to the creation of a large “ecosystem” of softwares for use with the platform. Fix - Time
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Cray-1 Super Computer Introduced
From Cray Research, Seymour Cray (architect), Lester Davis (Chief Engineer) were the lead engineers in creating the unique first super computer to implement the vector processor design.
which improves performance of math operations. Cray research were aware that each Cray super computer would take a year to assemble and test, and each computer would cost around $10 million to produce.
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First Camera Phone introduced
Created by Sharp (Japan), the J-SH04 J-Phone was the first phone to allow phones instant automatic sharing, and a wireless camera. This project was unique and time bound. This innovation was the first step for cameras used in mobile devices, worldwide. From this, product development within large companies worked endlessly to increase the uses of this new innovative tool, which had huge increasing demand.
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PowerBook Series of Laptops is introduced
The Powerbook (PB) series executed by John Sculley was a basic version of the three PB,completed 1 January 2006 making it a fixed project. It was one of the first to include a internal floppy drive, palm rest and built in trackball making it unique. The PB100 was an entry level machine whereas the PB140 was more powerful and more memory,PB170 was the higher end model.The deliverable purpose was to improve Apples unsuccessful Macintosh Portable project.
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One Laptop per Child Consortium (OLPC)
The initiative was an educational program that aims at deploying millions of rugged, ultra low-cost, laptop computers to children in developing nations that lack access to such devices. Created by Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of MIT's Media Lab under (UNDP).
Temporary - Only lasted as long as the UNDP program.
Unique - First to try to bring technology to people in poorer situations.
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The Amazon Kindle Released
The release of this product was huge, due to the fact that it enables readers to have access to millions of books or articles at the tip of their fingers.
The project was executed by Lab126, an organisation under the Amazon company. This was driven by the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, as he saw an opportunity for expansion before competitor companies did. This project saved people time, money and increased convenience. Fix - Quality
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Apple Retina display
Apples Product Development Team executed the Retina Display completed in 2012 making it fixed.It allows for 400 pixels per inch for the standard iPad,MacBook,Apple Watch and Iphone. This is near the maximum amount of pixels per inch that the human eye can see.Plane switching made it have a wider viewing angle and better colouring making it unique.Deliverable purpose was to enable the company to continue creating high resolution pictures for their products.
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IMB’s Roadrunner Supercomputer.
End date: Roadrunner was decommissioned by Los Alamos on March 31, 2013
Description: The IBM-developed machine, called RoadRunner, was benchmarked at 1.026 petaflops (a petaflop is equal to one thousand trillion calculations per second), making it more than twice as fast as the top-ranked computer in the previous version of the ranking.
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