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First Programmable Computer
In 1936 the first programmable computer, the Z1, was made by Germany's Konrad Zuse. This to be considered to be the first electrical binary programmable computer. -
First Digital Computer
The Atanasoff Berry Computer also known as the ABC:was the first digital computer. It was developed by John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry and continued being developed until 1942. -
What was the first computer ??
The Eniac was invented by J.Presper Eckret and John Mauchly in 1943. Although a judge ruled the ABC computer was the first digital computer many consider the Eniac to be the first.Because of the judge ruling and because the case was never appealed like most we consider the ABC to be the first digital computer. However, because the ABC was never fully functional, we consider the first functional digital computer to be the ENIAC. -
The first stored program computer
The early British computer known as the EDSAC is considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. The computer performed its first calculation on May 6, 1949 and was the computer that ran the first graphical computer game. -
The first PC (IBM compatible) computer
On April 7, 1953 IBM publicly introduced the 701 , its first electric computer and first mass produced computer. Later IBM introduced its first personal computer called the "IBM PC" in 1981. The computer was code named and still sometimes referred to as the "Acorn" and had a 8088 processor, 16 KB of memory, which was expandable to 256 and utilizing MS-DOS -
The first computer with RAM
MIT introduces the Whirlwind machine March 8, 1955 , a revolutionary computer that was the first digital computer with magnetic core RAM and real-time graphics. -
The first transistor computer
The TX-O (Transistorized Experimental computer) and first transistorized computer is demonstrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. -
The first minicomputer
In 1960 Digital Equipment Corporation released its first of many PDP computers the PDP-1 . -
The first workstation
Although never sold the first workstation is considered to be the Xerox Alto, introduced in 1974. The computer was revolutionary for its time and included a fully functional computer, display, and mouse -
The first personal computer
n 1975 Ed Roberts coined the term personal computer when he introduced the Altair 8800. Although the first personal computer is considered to be the Kenback-1, which was first introduced for $750 in 1971. The computer relied on a series of switches for inputting data and output data by turning on and off a series of lights. The Micral is considered the be the first commercial non-assembly computer. The computer used the Intel 8008 processor and sold for $1,750 in 1973. -
The first laptop or portable computer
The IBM 5100 is the first portable computer, which was released on September 1975. The computer weighed 55 pounds and had a five inch CRT display, tape drive, 1.9MHz PALM processor, and 64KB of RAM. -
The first Apple computer
Steve Wozniak designed the first Apple known as the Apple I computer in 1976 . -
The first PC clone
The first PC clone was developed by Compaq , the "Compaq Portable" was release in March 1983 and was 100% compatible with IBM computers and software that ran on IBM computers. -
The first multimedia computer
In 1992 Tandy Radio Shack becomes one of the first companies to release a computer based on the MPC standard with its introduction of the M2500 XL/2 and M4020 SX computers. -
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