My history of co mputer by Ethan Pate

1930s HP is founded

29patee — 2024-01-29 13:57:09 UTC

HP is founded in a california garage.they created audio equipment and disney order 8 pieces for the movie fantasia

1940s Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 Computer

29patee — 2024-01-29 14:18:36 UTC

konrad zuse make the first isolation computer

1950s-ERA 1101 introduced

29patee — 2024-01-30 14:13:01 UTC

The 1101, designed by ERA but built by Remington-Rand, was intended for high-speed computing and stored 1 million bits on its magnetic drum.

1960-DEC PDP-1 introduced

29patee — 2024-01-30 14:15:50 UTC

The typical PDP-1 computer system, which sells for about $120,000, includes a cathode ray tube graphic display, paper tape input/output, needs no air conditioning and requires only one operator; all of which become standards for minicomputers. I

1970-Amdahl Corporation introduces the Amdahl 470

29patee — 2024-01-30 14:17:57 UTC

Gene Amdahl, father of the IBM System/360, starts his own company, Amdahl Corporation, to compete with IBM in mainframe computer systems.

1980-Commodore introduces the VIC-20

29patee — 2024-01-30 14:22:13 UTC

Commodore releases the VIC-20 home computer as the successor to the Commodore PET personal computer.

1990-IBM 9345 hard disk drive

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IBM's 9345 hard disk drive is introduced. Codenamed "Sawmill," it was the first hard disk drive to use magneto-resistive heads. Magneto-resistive heads gave the 9345 an advantage over its competitors, as the bits could be stored more densely.

2000-The Sims is released

29patee — 2024-01-30 14:26:51 UTC

While most games see a player working towards an end-game scenario, The Sims allows players to create a home, get a job, and form relationships in a free-form world.

2010-China's Tianhe supercomputers are operational

29patee — 2024-01-30 14:29:13 UTC

With a peak speed of over a petaflop (one thousand trillion calculations per second), the Tianhe 1 (translation: Milky Way 1) is developed by the Chinese National University of Defense Technology using Intel Xeon processors combined with AMD graphic processing units (GPUs).