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Z1 Computer
First freely programmable computer. -
ABC Computer
World's first electronic digital computer at Iowa state University. -
Harvard Mark 1 Computer.
A 5 ton device that contained 760,000 separate pieces. -
ENIAC 1 Computer.
The American military sponsored their research, Because they needed a computer for calculating artillery firing tables. -
UNIVAC Computer.
First commercial computer and able to pick presidential winners. -
The Integrated Circuit
otherwise known as the chip. -
Intel 1103 Computer memory
The world's first available dynamic RAM. -
The Floppy Disk
Nicknamed the floppy for its flexibility. -
Wordstar Software
Word processors. -
IBM PC Home Computer
From an Acorn grows a personal computer revolution. -
Apple introduces the Lisa computer
Lisa is the first commercial personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). -
Acorn Archimedes is released.
Acorn's ARM RISC microprocessor is first used in the company's Archimedes computer system. -
IBM 9345 hard disk drive
IBM's 9345 hard disk drive is introduced. Codenamed "Sawmill," it was the first hard disk drive to use magneto-resistive heads. -
Compact flash
When CompactFlash is introduced by SanDisk, it is quickly adopted and becomes the preferred memory storage option in many consumer as well as professional electronic devices. -
Bebox is released
Be, founded by former Apple executive Jean Louis Gassée and a number of former Apple, NeXT and SUN employees, releases their only product – the BeBox. -
Nvidia releases the GeForce 256
Video applications for personal computers drive demand for increased graphical performance.