Joes history of computers by Joseph O'Connor

1930s - Hewlett-Packard is founded

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The company HP was founded in a garage in California. Walt Disney bought 8 200b model to show the movie Fantasia in theaters.

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In 1939, Bell Telephone Laboratories completes this Calculator, It was designed by George Stibitz.

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One of the first commercially produced computers, Fun fact one of the first customer to this product was US Navy. It sored 1 million bits on it.

30oconnorj — 2024-09-05 15:35:35 UTC

This PDP-1 computer sold for around 120,000, it includes a cathode ray tube, graphic display, paper tube, and input/output.

30oconnorj — 2024-09-06 15:04:48 UTC

Gene Amdahl, starts his own business and it was a great thing that happened to him

30oconnorj — 2024-09-06 15:06:15 UTC

Commodore releases the VIC-20 home computer for a self computer it was great and it was less expensive.

30oconnorj — 2024-09-06 15:07:44 UTC

Reaching 32 gigaflops (32 billion floating point operations they were way bigger than the computer that we have today as you can see.

30oconnorj — 2024-09-06 15:09:02 UTC

Japan's SoftBank introduces the fist phone with a camera it even has buttons.

30oconnorj — 2024-09-06 15:10:20 UTC

Since the release of the Macintosh in 1984, Apple has done some things to the phone that we know over time as you can see.