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UNIVAC: First Ever Made Calculator
Source It can store 12,000 digits in random access mercury-delay lines. It is the first ever Universal Automatic Computer -
First Video Game Ever
Source Ralph Baer created the video game "Chase". The first video game that was capable of being played on a television. -
ARPANET: First Network
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The U.S. Department of Defense created the first network for military purposes. The TCP/IP protocaol was created and we still used this process today. -
HP-35: First Ever Portable Calculator
Source Hewlett-Packard announced the HP-35 as "a fast, extremely accurate electronic slide rule" with a solid-state memory similar to that of a computer. The HP-35 distinguished itself from its competitors by its ability to perform a broad variety of logarithmic and trigonometric functions, to store more intermediate solutions for later use, and to accept and display entries in a form similar to standard scientific notation. -
PONG
Source Pong is released. In 1966, Ralph Baer designed a ping-pong game for his Odyssey gaming console. -
The Alto
Source One of the first personal computers, a general purpose computer designed for individual use (although not as a home computer). However it was expensive and, unlike modern personal computers, not based on a microprocessor. -
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IBM Personal Computer
Source Because of the success of the IBM Personal Computer, the term "PC" came to mean more specifically a desktop microcomputer compatible with IBM's PC products. Within a short time of the introduction, third-party suppliers of peripheral devices, expansion cards, and software proliferated; the influence of the IBM PC on the personal computer market was substantial in standardizing a platform for personal computers. -
MIDI
Source A technical standard that describes a protocol, digital interface and connectors and allows a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers and other related devices to connect and communicate with one another. A single MIDI link can carry up to sixteen channels of information, each of which can be routed to a separate device. -
Amiga 1000
Source The Commodore Amiga 1000, also known as the A1000 and originally simply as the Amiga, was the first personal computer release by Commodore International in the Amiga line. It combined the powerful 16/32-bit Motorola 68000 CPU with one of the most advanced graphics and sound systems in its class, and ran a preemptive multitasking operating system that fit into 512 KB of memory. -
DOOM: First Ever First Person Shooter
Source "Doom” is released. id Software released Doom in late 1993. An immersive first-person shooter-style game, Doom became popular on many different platforms before losing popularity to games like Halo and Counter-Strike. -
Iomega Zip Disk
Source The initial Zip system allowed 100MB to be stored on a cartridge roughly the size of a 3 ½ inch floppy disk. Later versions increased the capacity of a single disk from 100Mbytes to 2GB. -
Apollo DN100
Source Apollo Computer Inc., founded 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts by William Poduska (a founder of Prime Computer) and others, developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s. Along with Symbolics and Sun Microsystems, Apollo was one of the first vendors of graphical workstations in the 1980s. Apollo produced much of its own hardware and software.
