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CNC
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The Complex Number Calculator was invented by George Stibitz. After displaying his device at a meeting in Dartmouth, he stunned every body by calculating numbers remotely. -
ABC
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Throughout WWII, John Vincent Atanasoff built the Atanasoff Berry-Computer in Iowa State College. This device intorduced early computer concepts. -
ENIAC
Sources Although it began production in 1943, the Eniac proved to be better than its predecessors because it was nearly 1000 times faster. It was also took up about 1000 square feet. -
EDSAC
Sources Maurice Wilkes EDSAC was the first stored program computer. Gathering inspiration from lectures he recieved from the Moore School. -
Whirwind
Sources By the time the navy got into WWII, MIT was approached to make a flight simulator to train pilots. Drawing inspiration from the ENIAC, the project wasn't completed until 1951. By that time the navy had lost interest in it. -
Integrated Circuits
Sources Though he was not the first to bring up the idea, Jack Kilby is widely accredited for the creation of the Phase Shift Oscillator Circuit?Integrated Circuit. He was originally hired by Texas Instruments, Dallas. -
6600 Supercomputer
Sources Seymour Cray's Supercomputer had the ability to perform up to 3 million instruction per second, 3 times faster than the IBM. It consisted of 12 small computers called peripheral processors. -
ARPANET
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An earlier version of the Internet, the ARPANET was the first to implement the I.P. address. Originally funded by the ARPA/DARPA corporation, the ARPANET borrowed concepts from people like Paul Baran, Lawrence Robert, and Donald Davies. -
Apple-I
Sources The Apple I was a device made for Hobbyist by a man known as Steve Wozniac. Later becoming friends with Steve Jobs, they produced the Apple II a year later. -
Model 400 and 800
Sources Upon delivering the the Atari VCS game console, the company introduced the Model 400 and 800 which both had gaming capabilities. It was the Model 800 that was primarily intended to be used as a home computer. -
Osborne I
Sources The Osborne I was the first portable computer that cost about 2,000 dollars. Adam Osborne's device featured 64 kilobytes, a 5-inch display, a modem, and it could fit under an airplane seat. -
Macintosh
Sources The first successful mouse driven computer had a graphic user interface, many features from the Lisa device, and was at a a more affordable price. Fun Fact: they even aired a superbowl commercial that refrenced the 1984 book by George Orwell. -
Amiga 1000
Sources The Amiga 1000 was a personal computer made by the company Commodre that cost nearly 1300 dollars. At the time, the Amiga 1000 was praised for it's advanced audio and video features. -
NeXT
Sources Steve Jobs(the cofounder of Apple) made a last final attempt to create something for Apple before moving on to his own company. The result was the NeXT, an innovation that cost 6500 dollars at base price, and moved to slow. Although it was widely unpopular, it is still recognized as an important innovation. -
World Wide Web
Sources 3 years before the number of hosts reach 1,000,000, Tim Berners develops the WWW. It is the company known as CERN that releases the web servers in 1991.
