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z1
The Z1 was a mechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse from 1935 to 1936 and built by him from 1936 to 1938. It was an electrically driven mechanical calculator with limited ability. reading instructions from punched tape. -
harvard mark 1 computer
The IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator , called Mark I by Harvard University's staff, was a general purpose electro-mechanical computer that was used in the war effort during the last part of World War II. -
abc computer
The ABC computer was the first automatic electronic digital computer, an early electronic digital computing device that has remained somewhat unheard of -
Eniac 1
Eniac was initially designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory. When eniac was announced in 1946 it was described in the press as a Giant Brain. It had a speed of one thousand times that of electro-mechanical machines. -
Altair 8800
The MITS Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics, and was sold by mail order through advertisements, in Radio-Electronics, and in other magazines. -
univac
The first UNIVAC was accepted by the United States Census Bureau on March 31, 1951, and was dedicated on June 14 that year. The fifth machine was used by CBS to predict the result of the 1952 presidential election. With a sample of just 1% of the voting population it famously predicted an Eisenhower landslide while the conventional wisdom favored Stevenson -
Kenbak I - 1971
The Kenbak-1 is considered by the Computer History Museum and the American Computer Museum to be the world's first personal computer. Only 40 machines were ever built and sold. It was designed and invented by John Blankenbaker of Kenbak Corporation in 1970, and was first sold in early 1971. -
The First Microprocessor
A microprocessor incorporates the functions of a computer's central processing unit on a single integrated circuit, or at most a few integrated circuits. All modern CPUs are microprocessors making the micro- prefix redundant. -
Apple computers
The Apple II series is a set of home computers, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer and introduced in 1977 with the original Apple II. -
VT100
The VT100 is a video terminal that was made by Equipment Corporation.The VT100 was also the first of Digital's terminals to be based upon an industry-standard microprocesser, Options could be added to the terminal to support an external printer, additional graphic renditions, and more memory, the VT100 could not display a full 24 lines of text when in 132 column mode -
Imb PC
the IBM PC, is the original version of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. and was introduced on August 12, 1981 -
No more keyboard
It's very likely that eventually we won't have keyboards anymore. It'll just be a hologram that projects onto a table or flat see face and you just tap it like you would tap your smartphone -
Flying cars
They are already working on and have flying cars. But they're obviously not street legal (or air legal ;) ) that's why we don't see them. And they cost a lot of money to make. -
No more laptops
Eventually we probably won't even have laptops. We will rely on things like the iPad. They'll just make bigger versions of things, add a holographic keyboard an call it good!
