Computers Timeline

  • Nimrod

    Nimrod
    It was designed by John Makepeace Bennet and developed by Raymond Stuart-Williams for the Festival of Britain. It was one of the first computers of that time to feature artificial intelligence playing against humans in a game. The computer was also one of the first computers to display the picture on the virtual screen, rather than through light bulbs. Finally, the computer can do thousands of calculations per second, one of the first virtual computers to do this.
  • Osborne One

    Osborne One
    This was the first portable computer, released by the Osborne Corporation. The developer of this computer was Adam Osborne. At the time, it was priced at 1,795 dollars. The main features of this are, first it has a big screen at that time, a 5 inch screen. Next, it can hold a bunch of storage at that time, two whole floppy disks inside the computer. Finally, for the first time a computer can have a fully detachable keyboard for transportation, and portability.
  • HP Pavilion 15

    HP Pavilion 15
    The HP Pavilion has a ton of hard storage for a laptop, 512 GB. Next, it has a lot of memory, making 16 GB of memory for the computer to run lots of applications at once. Finally, Intel Core I7, producing very fast speeds for the think and sleek computer.
  • Atkar 1000

    Atkar 1000
    This state-of-the-art computer isn't even a laptop, it is a tiny project that can display up to 16k video quality. It's perfect for gaming even, with 10 microprocessors that are so tiny people can't see them that can have speeds of 10 GHz. Finally, the whole projector is the tiniest computer, a record 2 inches by 2 inches onto a wall.