Technology Timeline

  • HP 200A Audio Oscillator

    Created by Hewlett and Packard
    This was a popular piece of test equipment for engineers, and was used for movies like Disney's "Fantasia."
  • The Complex Number Calculator (CNC)

    It was created by George Stibitz
    It demonstrated, for the first time ever, the possibility of remote computing, and complicated equations
  • Project Whirlwind

    It was created by a team at MIT, and supported by the US Military.
    They didn't find much sucess in their inital goal, but ended up perfecting magnetic core memory, which was the dominant form of high-speed random access memory for computers until the mid-1970s.
  • Olivetti Programma 101

    The OP 101 was a printing programmable calculator, 40,000 were sold, ten of which went to NASA who used it in the Apollo space project.
  • IBM Personal Computer (PC)

    Created by Microsoft, it was the first personal computer made.