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The Colossus At Work
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AT Bleychley Park the first Colossus was operational, designed by a British engineer named Tommy Flowers. When the Colossus was designed it was to break the complex Lorenz ciphers that had been used by the Nazis during WWII. -
ENIAC inveted
wikipediaThe ENIAC was the first digital computer and cost almost $500,000. The machine was the size of a small gym and contained over 17,000 vacuum tubes. -
IMB
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IMB was able to ship its first electronic computer called the 701, within three years of the production. 19 machines were sold to aircraft companies, reasearch laboratories, and the federal government. -
IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Calculator
computerhistoryThis device esablished itself as the first mass-produced computer, the company was selling 450 in fisrt year. Spinning at 12,500 rpm, allowed it to run faster. -
AT&T Dataplan
computerhistoryAT&T had designed a dataplan, specifically for digital computers to convert data and to analog signals for transmission across long distance networks. Digital data had become a commercial product. -
PDP-8
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The PDP-8 was the first commercially successful minicomputer, it sold for $18,000. Becasue, of the smaller size, faster speed, and and price the PDP-8 was to go into small businesses, scientic labs, and manufacturing plants. -
David Evans & Ivan Sutherland
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Evans & Sutherland were both professors of computer science. These two gentel men founded frame buffer, a company to develop a special graphics computer. This device used a high-speed memory used for the capturing of video. -
ARPAnet
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On a day of war in 1969, ARPAnet began. ARPAnet if the grandfather of Internet. -
Intel 8008 microprocessor
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This microprocessor made a fast inprovment over its predecessor. For the first time a microprocessor could handle lowercase and uppercase letters, symbols, and punctuation marks. -
Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor)
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This type of computer was the first of many personal computers that had be released to the public in 1977. The Commordore PET had 4 or 8 kilobytpes of memory and was ealy to operate. -
Apollo DN100
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The Apollo Computer had been the first work station unvieled, with more power than some of the minicomputers and a lower price. Apollo Computer and Sun Microsystem made there computers to run with intensive graphics programs common in most engineering. -
Vidoe Toaster
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NewTek had introduced Video Toaster in 1990. Vidoe toaster was made for video editing. It was very afforable than any ordinary computer-based video editing system. This particular product became very popular when released. -
Iomega Zip Disk
computerhistoryThe Iomega Zip Disk was a storage device that had been released in 1994. The system allowed 100MB to be stored on th cartridge that was about eh size of 3 1/2 inch floppy disk. -
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iPad mini
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Apple was very impressed by the demand for the iPad mini. It shifted 3 million units of the new iPad 4 along with the iPad mini. The iPad mini 2 will have an even sharper display.
