WORK by Alyssa Barch

1937 Bell Laboratories scientist George Stibitz uses relays for a demonstration adder

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1940 Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 Computer

29barcha — 2023-11-03 12:20:02 UTC

Built as an electro-mechanical the British Bombe is conceived of by computer pioneer Alan Turing and Harold Keen of the British Tabulating Machine Company.

1950 NPL Pilot ACE completed

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One of the first commercially produced computers, the company´s first customer was the US Navy.The 1101, designed by ERA but built by Remington-Rand, was intended for high-speed computing and stored 1 million bits

1960 DEC PDP-1 introduced

29barcha — 2023-11-03 12:30:26 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.

1970 Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) makes its debut

29barcha — 2023-11-03 12:32:00 UTC

Designed by scientists and engineers at MIT’s Instrumentation Laboratory, the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) is the culmination of years of work to reduce the size of the Apollo spacecraft computer from the size of seven refrigerators side-by-side to a compact unit weighing only 70 lbs.

1980 Texas Instruments TI 99/4 is released

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TMS 9900 microprocessor running at 3 MHz, the TI 99/4 has one of the fastest CPUs available in a home computer.

1990 Intel's Touchstone Delta supercomputer system comes online

29barcha — 2023-11-06 12:57:58 UTC

Reaching 32 gigaflops (32 billion floating point operations per second), Intel’s Touchstone Delta has 512 processors operating independently, arranged in a two-dimensional communications “mesh.” Caltech researchers used this supercomputer prototype for projects such as real-time processing of satellite images, and for simulating molecular models in AIDS research.