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The Beginning
The ZI was the first programable computer being made in Germany by Konrad Zuse -
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When computers started
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First digital computer
in 1937 the ABC made by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff began to develop the first digital computer and continued to be developed till 1942 -
The ENIAC
The ENIAC began development in 1943 by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly and finished in1946. -
The first stored program computer
EDSAC was made in Britain it made its first calculation on May 6 1949 and its first graphical computer game. -
The first PC (IBM compatible) computer
IBM introduced the first PC called 701. It's the first electric computer and the first mass-produced computer. -
The first computer with ram
MIT introduces the first computer with ram. The computer is called the Whirlwind machine which had real-time graphics. -
The first transistor computer
The TX-O (Transistorized Experimental computer) -
The first minicomputer
In 1960 Digital Equipment Corporation released its first of many PDP computers the PDP-1. -
The first personal computer
Ed Roberts made the first personal computer called the Altair 8800 The computer relied on a series of switches for inputting data and outputting data by turning on and off a series of lights. -
The first laptop or portable computer
The IBM 5100 is the first portable computer, which was released on September 1975. It weighed 55 pounds and had 64KB ram -
The first Apple computer
Steve Wozniak made the first apple computer. -
The first PC clone
Developed by Compaq the Compaq portable was released and was 100% compatible with IBM computers and software that ran on IBM computers. -
The first multimedia computer
Tandy Radio Shack becomes one of the first companies to release a computer based on the MPC standard with its introduction of the M2500 XL/2 and M4020 SX computers.