Computer Inventions during the 1950's

By kory2316

  • EDVAC- Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer

    EDVAC- Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
    The EDVAC was created by John Von Neuman and the ENIAC. It has enhanced out lives because it was considered the first stored computer to be created, storing up to 1000 instructions per second.

  • Random Access Memory Core store

    Random Access Memory Core store
    Created by Jay Forrester this was essentially the first RAM and it essential to our modern-day technology because it serves as the computer's working "Memory."

  • Transistorized Digital Computer

    Transistorized Digital Computer
    Better known as the TRADIC, it was essential because it took less space, 100 watts of power and performed one million operations per millisecond.

  • Hard Drive

    Hard Drive
    Introduced by IBM in approximately 1957, the hard-drive was a device that weighed a ton and only stored 5 megabytes and it was the first storage device ever created

  • Compiled Computer

    Compiled Computer
    Named the 1st compiled computer and invented by Grace Hopper and got rid of assembly and converting to machine code and is essential to today's modern life because we don't have to take out of our time to manually convert.