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First Ever Made omputer
Hewlett-Packard was the first to make a computer called HP 200A Audio Oscillator. Wich rapidly became a popular peice of test equiptment for engineers. Disney ordered multiple 200B versons of the computer for sound effects for the movie "Fantasia". -
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
This computer called the The Atanasoff-Berry Computer or the (ABC). After he sucseffuly made a prototype in 1939 he was rewarded enough money to make the full machine. The ABC was the center of the patent dispute to the invetion of the machine. Atanasoff was declared the originator of several basic computer ideas. then the computer was open to the public. -
ENIAC
In Febuary, th epublic got a first impresion of the ENIAC, a machine built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert that improved a thousand times on the speed of its contemporaries. the speed of the machine was 5,000 operations per second! -
ERA 1101
The ERA 1101was the first comercially produced computer. Their first costomer was the US Navy; it held one million bits of magnetic drum, the earliest magnetic storage device. The drums stored about four thousand words. -
MIT Whirlwind
Edward R. the creator of the computer. Jay Forrester the user of the computer described it as reliable he used it thirty five hours a week. It had four thousand five hundred vacum tubes, and the floor space was three thousand one hundred square feet. -
Los Alamos MANIAC
John von Neumann IAS computer was operational at the institute for advanced studies in Princeton, N.J. The contract made the engineers to share thir designs. -
IBM 701
IBM shipped its first electric computer, the 701. During the years of production IBM sold nineteen machines to research labratories, aircraft companies, and the federal government. -
MIT TX0
MIT researchers built the TX-0, the first general-purpose programable computer with built in transistors. For easy replacement the designers placed each transistor into a "bottle" or almost like a tube. They then had some testing with programing. -
SAGE operator station
SAGE — Semi-Automatic Ground Environment. Like hundred of radar statons in the US and Canada in the first large-scale computer communications network. AN operator directed the system by taping a light gun on the screen -
DEC PDP-1
DEC PDP-2 was sold for one hundred twenty thousand dollars! -
Wes Clark with LINC
The LINC (Laboratory Instrumentation Computer) offered the first real time labratory data procesing. Designed by Wesley Clark at Lincoln Labratories, later comercialized the LINC8. They mostly used this machine for biomedical studies. -
DEC PDP-8
Digital equiptment corp. created the PDP-8, the first sucsefull minicomputer. The PDP-8 sold for eight teen thousand dollars. The speed, small size, and reasonable cost enabled the PDP-8 to go into thousands of manufacturing plants, small businesses, and scientific laboratories. -
Xerox Alto
Researchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center designed the Alto. The first computer with a built in mouse for input. The Alto stored several files simultaneously in windows, offered menus and icons, and could link to a local area network. Even though the Xero didnt go on comercially it was poular -
NeXT
Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, who left Apple to form his own company, unveiled the NeXT. At a base price of $6,500, the NeXT ran too slowly to be popular. a built-in digital signal processor that allowed voice recognition, and object-oriented languages to simplify programming. -
Early Publicity still for the Commodore 64
Commodore introduces the Commodore 64. The C64, as it was better known, sold for $595, came with 64KB of RAM and featured impressive graphics. This computer has sold more than twenty two million times.
