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Hewlett-Packard is Founded
This was basically the first computer making company. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator. Walt Disney order six of these machines for a movie in 1940. -
Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 computer
This was an early computer built by a German engineer. it used 2,300 relays and had a bit word length of 22. It was destroyed when Belin was bombed in 1943. -
A computer 1,000 times faster
The ENIAC, built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert was 1,000 times the speed of its contemporaries. It had a speed of 5,000 operations a second. -
Magnetic Tape
This tape was able to store 2 million digits per tape, the best of its time. Created by IBM, The Model 726 was sold with one of their computers. It was rented for $850 per month. -
Precursor to the minicomputer
This computer was built by DEC and sold for $120,000. It made some MIT students very interested. They ended up designing the first videogame, SpaceWar! This was used as a standard demo for the computers. -
First successful Microcomputer
DEC successfully designs a microcomputer that is a good buy for people. It is faster, smaller, and more afordable than other computers of the time. -
Computer-Computer communication
The department of defense created nodes on the ARPANET allowing their computers to communicate with each other. This was used by the UCLA, The University of Utah, and SRI international -
HP-35
HP released a revolutionary computer that was small and described as, "A fast, extremely accurate slide-rule." This was basically the first calculator. -
The Apple II
The Apple II was relaesed and became a huge success. It had a cassette tape with the computer game, "Breakout." -
The World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee developed the internet revolutionizing computers even further. This helped make computers a houshold item.
