Components

Electronics

By wtrimble

  • Field Effect Transistor

    Lilienfeld patents FET

  • ENIAC- First Computer

    ENIAC- First Computer
    Eniac the first electronic copmputer (using vacuum tubes is announced. It is 1000 tinmes faster than mechanical devices and uses 17,246 vacuum tubes

  • Bipolar Junction Transistor invented

    Bipolar Junction Transistor invented
    Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley invent bipolar junction transistor

  • First transistor radio

    First transistor radio
    Texas Instruments and IDEA produce first transistor radio

  • LED Light Emiting Diode

    LED Light Emiting Diode
    Biard and Pittmandevelop the LED

  • First personal computer Olivetti Programma 101

    First personal computer Olivetti Programma 101
    The Programma 101 was able to calculate the basic four arithmetic functions (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division), plus square root, absolute value, and fractional part.There were 16 jump instructions and 16 conditional jump instructions. It's the conditional jump instructions that help lay claim to "computer" (a state machine) rather than "calculator" (a simple enumerator of instructions)

  • First "pocket" calculator

    First "pocket" calculator
    Handheld consumer electronic calulator introduced. Sharp unit shown sold for $345

  • Cell phone demonstrated

    Cell phone demonstrated
    Motorola demonstrates first hand held telephone

  • Apple 1 computer KIT sold

    Apple 1 computer KIT sold
    The Apple I was sold as a motherboard (with CPU, RAM, and basic textual-video chips), which is less than what is now considered a complete personal computer. It had no keyboard monitor or case

  • First cell phone network

    First cell phone network
    Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT) lauches first commercial cell network

  • IBM personal computer introduced

    IBM personal computer introduced
    IBM PC used the then-new Intel 8088 processor. Like other 16-bit CPUs, it could access up to 1 megabyte of RAM, but it used an 8-bit-wide data bus to memory and peripherals. This design allowed use of the large, readily available, and relatively inexpensive family of 8-bit-compatible support chips.

  • Apple Macintosh computer

    Apple Macintosh computer
    It was the first personal computer to be sold without a programming language at all. Included a 400K hard drive

  • Apple IPOD introduced

    Apple IPOD introduced
    Contemperary music players were bulky and awkward or small and useless. Apple founder Steve Jobs "announced it as a Mac-compatible product with a 5 GB hard drive that put "1,000 songs in your pocket'