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In 1940, the complex number calculator was unveiled at an American Mathematical Society conference at Dartmouth college. It was able to perform calculations remotely using a Teletype terminal.
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One of the very first commercial computers, the company's first customer was the US Navy. It was designed by the ERA and produced by Remington-Rand, meant to be able to hold 1 million bits.
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The Univac 1 was the first computer to attract worldwide attention. The first major customers were utilities, insurance companies and the US military.
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Magnetic tape allows for inexpensive mass storage, was a key for the computer revolution.
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Alexander was A PhD student from Cambridge University, he designed one of the earliest computer games, a version of Tic-Tac-Toe, called OXO
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SHARE was known for boisterous meetings and for most of it's customers it felt by many to be insufficient.
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Appearing in the movie Forbidden Planet, it was a huge hit and was seen as what robots would look like.
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Computers used to have tp use punch cards or paper tape to input into computers, but now keyboards were used.
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The first image was scanned and seen as made with a bunch of black dots on the computer.
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DEC was first founded o make electronic parts for test, measurement, prototyping, and control markets.
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Designed to detect Russian nuclear bombers, it pioneers a lot of technological advances.
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The first mass-produced robot begins working to make cars.
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The first disk drive made with a removable disk pack. Each pack weighed 10 pounds, and was capable of 2 million characters.
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A game that was a battle between two spaceships, debuting from MIT. Also incorporating a program to provide a background.
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Queen Elizabeth sends out her first e-mail on March 26.
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The VDM was the first implementation of video display for personal computers. Enabled personal computers for interactive games.
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The Apple-1 was a single board computer for hobbyists. Also the founding of Apple.
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The US government after funding many computer research programs finally installed technology into the White House.
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LaserDiscs were introduced to hold movies, the first film sold on LaserDiscs in North America was Jaws.
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IBM's mass marketing campaign sparked a huge growth in personal computers.
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This CD was able of holding 550 megabytes of pre-recorded data. Was a huge hit for Sony.
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The robot gripping arm was small, and commercially available. It could assemble product or handle chemicals.
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Was a pc box meant to be the new innovation with 8 megabytes of RAM.
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Reaching 32 gigaflops, it had 512 processors arranged in two dimensional communications.
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It was the start of search engines and helpful links, with HTML, URLS.
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Inspired by Dungeons and Dragons, and text based games It was a fantasy themed MMORPG, being a huge critical success.
