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Computers Throughout Time

By Fershaw

  • ENIAC

    ENIAC
    First programmable computer, created by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. ENIAC used ring counters to store digits.

  • Programma 101

    Programma 101
    Manufactured by the Italian company Olivetti, it is the first personal computer, able to realize basic arithmetic functions: (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division), plus square root, absolute value, and fractional part. It had a 240 bytes memory. It included a printer for display of calculations.

  • Apple 1

    Apple 1
    Apple 1 was the first computer of the company today known as Apple. It was engineered by Steve Wozniak and it used a 1.023MHz CPU. The screen displayed only 40×24 characters, and had hardware-implemented scrolling

  • IBM PC

    IBM PC
    The IBM personal computer was developed in 1981 by the IBM company, and it features a 4.77GHz Intel Processor. It used a one channel Pulse-Width Modulation to play sound.

  • Macintosh

    Macintosh
    The Macintosh was introduced by Apple in the United States as an affordable computer for the middle class with improved graphics. It was released with a 7.83MHz Motorola CPU. It worked with Floppy disk for storage.

  • Macintosh Portable

    Macintosh Portable
    This was the first laptop launched by Apple. It featured a 1.4 MB double-sided floppy drive, and a Motorola 68000 processor with 16MHz clock speed. Its price was about $7,000 USD from then, $13,000 USD from today.

  • ThinkPad 770

    ThinkPad 770
    The ThinkPad 770 was the released in 1997 by IBM, it included a 233 MHz Pentium MMX processor and 32MB RAM. It became very popular as it was the first laptop to have a DVD-ROM

  • MacBook

    MacBook
    The MacBook was first introduced by apple in early 2006. It had a 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo processor. It was available in black and white colors. This computer was the first ever with a built-in webcam.

  • 2013 Razer Blade

    2013 Razer Blade
    The Razer brand is very well recognized for its manufacturing of high performance gaming computers and hardware. The 2013 Razer Blade, is a very powerful laptop, weighting only 4.1 pounds, rated the world's lightest gaming computer. It features a 2.2GHz Intel Core i7-4702HQ CPU, 8GB of RAM and NVIDIA's GTX 765M GPU.

  • Mac Pro 2014-2016

    Mac Pro 2014-2016
    Apple's Mac Pro is the latest computer released by the brand. It is available with up to 12 cores (2.66GHz) or 6 cores (3.46GHz). It also supports up to 64GB of RAM.