David Packard and Bill Hewlett found their company in a Palo Alto, California garage

The HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which was their first product, and rapidly became popular.

The Z3 was used for aerodynamic calculations.

Unfortunately, it was destroyed in a bombing raid on Berlin in late 1943

Designed by ERA but built by Remington-Rand

Many of the 1101’s basic architectural details were used again in later Remington-Rand computers until the 1960s.

The AGC’s first flight was on Apollo 7.

A year later, it steered Apollo 11 to the lunar surface.

In 1977, MITS was sold to Pertec, which continued producing Altairs in 1978.

The machine came with 256 bytes of memory (expandable to 64 KB)

Sets out to prove that the design would have worked as planned

Led by curator Doron Swade the team built Babbage’s machine in six years

A program to deliver technology and resources to targeted schools in the least developed countries.

By 2011, over 2.4 million laptops had been shipped.