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Ratio Shack
Radio Shack opened its first store in Boston -
IBM
The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. changed its name to
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Scale analog
Vannevar Bush created the differential analyzer, a large scale analog calculator that can do many kinds of scientific computations. -
Calculator
The Complex Number Calculator (CNC) is completed. -
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Hewlett-Packard is Founded. David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which rapidly becomes a popular piece of test equipment for engineers. Walt Disney Pictures ordered eight of the 200B model to use as sound effects generators for the 1940 movie “Fantasia.” The Complex Number Calculator (CNC) is completed. In 1939, Bell Telephone Laboratories completed this calculator, designed by researcher Ge -
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1940s
Major computer events in 1942
John Atanasoff successfully tests the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) which was the first computer to use regenerative capacitor drum memory.
Major computer events in 1945
The Von Neumann Architecture and a description of a general purpose electronic digital computer with a stored programs is introduced in John von Neumann's report of theEDVAC. On January 10, 1946 the US Army Signal Corps successfully receive an echo bounce from a radar signal sent to the moon. Co -
Major Computer Events
John Atanasoff successfully tests the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) which was the first computer to use regenerative capacitor drum memory. -
Major Computer Events
The Von Neumann Architecture and a description of a general purpose electronic digital computer with a stored programs is introduced in John von Neumann's report of theEDVAC. -
The first transistor
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockleyinvent the first transistor at the Bell Laboratories on December 23, 1947. -
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1950s
1956 The TX-O (Transistorized Experimental computer) is the first transistorized computer to be demonstrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956.
In 1960, Digital Equipment Corporation released its first of many PDP computers, the PDP-1. -
Computer upgrade
In 1960, Digital Equipment Corporation released its first of many PDP computers, the PDP-1. The computer was revolutionary for its time and included a fully functional computer, display, and mouse. The computer operated like many computers today utilizing windows, menus and icons as an interface to its operating system. Many of the computer's capabilities were first demonstrated in The Mother of All Demos by Douglas Engelbart on December 9, 1968. -
digital equipment
In 1960, Digital Equipment Corporation released its first of many PDP computers, the PDP-1. -
revolutionay
The computer was revolutionary for its time and included a fully functional computer, display, and mouse. -
Apple computer
The Apple I (Apple 1) was the first Apple computer
that originally sold for $666.66. -
Osborne
The first truly portable computer or laptop is considered to be the Osborne I, which was released on April 1981 and developed by Adam Osborne.
The IBM PC Division (PCD) later released the IBM portable in 1984, it's first portable computer that weighed in at 30 pounds. -
Microsoft& Apple
1985
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple. -
Radio Shack
In 1992, Tandy Radio Shack became 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. -
Apple 3g
2000 iphone 3g was created by apple -
Apple ipad
Apple debuts the iPad -
New tech
22 nanometre chips enter mass production | Consumer-level robotics are booming | World's first commercial spaceport, The Space Shuttle fleet is retired -
Major computer events
Windows 8 is released | Quad-core smartphones and tablets | Nintendo launches the Wii U | -
energency brake
Trucks with emergency braking systems are mandatory in Europe
