Computers Timeline by Gretchen King

2010 - Apple Retina Display

29kingg1 — 2023-11-02 12:58:38 UTC

The Apple retina display was Apple wanting high-resolution graphics and display technologies. Retina displays approached the limit of pixel visibility to the human eye and allowed for a wider viewing angle and improved color. The Retina display became standard.

2000 - First camera phone introduced

29kingg1 — 2023-11-02 19:50:13 UTC

First camera phone introduced was by Japan's SoftBank and was the J-Phone J-SH04. It had camera in it with a maximum resolution of 0.11 megapixels and 256-color display. Photos could now be shared wirelessly and SoftBank released a flip-phone verizon a month later.

1990 - Inte;'s Touchstone Delta supercomputer system comes online

29kingg1 — 2023-11-02 19:56:21 UTC

Intel's Touchstone Delta supercomputer system reached 32 billion floating point operations per second and had 512 processors operating by themselves. Researchers used this supercomputer prototype for real-time processing satellite images and for other things.

1980 - Commodore introduces the VIC-20

29kingg1 — 2023-11-02 20:01:43 UTC

Commodore introduces the VIC-20 as a home computer and it was meant to be a less expensive than the PET The VIC-20 was very successful, becoming first computer to sell more than a million units.

1970 - Amdahl Corporation introduces the Amdahl 470

29kingg1 — 2023-11-02 20:04:49 UTC

Amdahl Corporation introduces the AMdahl 470 and it was the company’s first product. It ran the same software as IBM System/370 computers but cost less and was smaller and faster.

1960 - DEC PDP-1 introduced

29kingg1 — 2023-11-02 20:11:04 UTC

DEC PDP-1 was introduced and sold for $120,000 and had a cathode ray tube graphic display, paper tape input and output. It needed no air conditioning and only needed one person. It also got people at MIT to write the first computerized video game, SpaceWar! and programs to play music. More than 50 PDP-1s were sold.

1950 - ERA 1101 introduced

29kingg1 — 2023-11-02 20:17:00 UTC

ERA 1101 was introduced and was the first commercially produced computers. The first customer of it was the US Navy and it was intended for high-speed computing. ERA 1101 stored 1 million bits. It was designed by ERA but built by Remington-Rand.

1940 - The Complex Number Calculator (CNC) is completed

29kingg1 — 2023-11-02 20:23:15 UTC

CNC was completed by Bell Telephone Laboratories but was designed by George Stibitz. Stibitz demonstrated the CNC at an American Mathematical Society and Stibitz performing calculations remotely on the CNC. This is likely the first example of remote access computing.

1937 - Bell Laboratories scientist George Stibitz makes a demonstration adder

29kingg1 — 2023-11-02 20:23:42 UTC

Bell Laboratories scientist George Stibitz demonstrations the adder called the “Model K” Adder. IT is called this because Stibitz built it on his “Kitchen” table. The demonstration circuit proofs the concept of applying Boolean logic to the design of computers.