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The Colossus
The Colossus was the first electric programmable computer, developed by Tommy Flowers, and first demonstrated in December 1943. The Colossus was created to help the British code breakers read encrypted German messages.
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UNIVAC or ERA1101
First delivered to the United States government in 1950, the UNIVAC 1101 or ERA 1101 is considered to be the first computer that was capable of storing and running a program from memory.
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UNNIMATE
George Devol designed the first truly programmable robot and called it
UNIMATE for "Universal Automation."Later, in 1956, George Devol and Joseph Engelberger formed the world's first robot company “Unimation” which stands for “universal automation”.
As a result, Engelberger has been called the 'father of robotics’. Unimation is still in production today, with robots for sale.
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TX-O
The TX-O (Transistorized Experimental computer) is the first transistorized computer to be demonstrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956.
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Sputnik I
History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully
launched Sputnik I. The world's first autonomous, artificial satellite was 22.8
inches in diameter and weighed only 183.9 pounds.
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SRI
SRI built “Shakey”; a mobile robot equipped with a vision system and controlled by a computer the size of a room.
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Stanford Arm
Victor Scheinman created the Stanford Arm, which was the first successful electrically-powered, computer-controlled robot arm.
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T3
Cincinnati Milacron released the T3, the first commercially available
minicomputer-controlled industrial robot (designed by Richard Hohn).
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WABOT 1
Ichiro Kato created WABOT I which was the first full-scale anthropomorphic
robot in the world. It had a system for controlling limbs, vision, and
conversation! It was estimated that it had the mental ability of a 18 month old
child.
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The ABC
The ABC was an electrical computer that used vacuum tubes for digital computation, including binary math and Boolean logic and had no CPU. On October 19, 1973, the US Federal Judge Earl R. Larson signed his decision that the ENIAC patent by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly was invalid and named Atanasoff the inventor of the electronic digital computer.
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MITS ALTAIR
The MITS ALTAIR was the first 8080 chip based kit computer and is
arguably the start of the personal computer.
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RB5X
Created by the General Robotics Corp. the RB5X was a programmable robot
equipped with infrared sensors, remote audio/video transmission, bump
sensors, and a voice synthesizer. It had software that could enable it to learn
about its environment.
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Collie1
A four legged walking machine, Collie1, was developed by H. Miura at the
University of Tokyo. The machine had 3 degrees of freedom per leg.
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Local Area Network (LAN)
LAN is a group of computers and associated devices that share a common communications line or wireless link to a server. Typically, a LAN encompasses computers and peripherals connected to a server within a distinct geographic area such as an office or a commercial establishment. Computers and other mobile devices use a LAN connection to share resources such as a printer or network storage.
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Storage Area Network SAN
A SAN moves storage resources off the common user network and reorganizes them into an independent, high-performance network. This allows each server to access shared storage as if it were a drive directly attached to the server. When a host wants to access a storage device on the SAN, it sends out a block-based access request for the storage device.
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