History of computers by Sophia Botta

Hewlett-Packard is founded

29bottas — 2023-11-03 15:19:44 UTC

The company was founded on January 1, 1939, by William R. Hewlett and David Packard, two recent electrical-engineering graduates of Stanford University.

Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 Computer

2023-11-06 16:17:08 UTC

German electromechanically computer designed by Konrad Zuse in 1938, and completed in 1941. It was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer.

IBM 650 magnetic drum calculator introduced

29bottas — 2023-12-22 01:27:04 UTC

In 1954, iBM comes out with its first mass-produced computer. In just quick times they sold 450. The magnetic data-storage drum had much faster access to stored info than any drum machine.

Cray-1 supercomputer introduced

29bottas — 2023-12-22 01:39:04 UTC

The Cray-1's comes partly from the shape "C" which reduces the length of wires and thus time signals.

Minuteman I missile guidance computer developed

29bottas — 2023-12-22 01:44:12 UTC

Minuteman missiles use transistorized computers to continuously calculate. Their computer was very fast and rugged like it had to with advanced reliable packaging and circuit design.

PowerBook series of laptops is introduced

29bottas — 2023-12-22 02:00:16 UTC

Apple's Macintosh Portable is a redesign of Apple's line of portable computers.All three PowerBooks introduced featured a built-in trackball, internal floppy drive, and palm rests, which would soon become typical of 1990s laptop design.

First camera phone introduced

29bottas — 2023-12-22 02:05:59 UTC

Japan's SoftBank introduces the first camera phone.The camera had a maximum resolution of 0.11 megapixels a 256-color display, and photos could be shared wirelessly. Knowing this would soon get popular, they released a flip-phone version just a month later.

Apple watch

29bottas — 2023-12-22 02:09:01 UTC

Making a computer version of a watch has been tried many times but failed until the apple watch has came out by apple.With many good features like an environmental and health monitoring inside as well.