My fearless padlet by Vaishvika Bathineni

Hewlett-Packard 1939

30bathineniv — 2024-08-29 12:38:10 UTC

Their first product, the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, rapidly became a popular piece of test equipment for engineers

Konrad Zuse Z3 computer 1941

30bathineniv — 2024-08-29 12:46:04 UTC

The Z3, an early computer built by German engineer Konrad Zuse working in complete isolation, has a 22 bit word length ,it was used for aerodynamic calculations but was destroyed in a bombing raid on Berlin in late 1943 . it was later built again and it is currently in the museum of munich

The First Bomb 1940

30bathineniv — 2024-08-29 12:58:34 UTC

the British Bombe is conceived of by computer pioneer Alan Turing and Harold Keen of the British Tabulating Machine Company.The basic idea for bombes came from Polish code-breaker Marian Rejewski's 1938 "Bomba."

First Colossus Operational at Bletchley park 1944

30bathineniv — 2024-08-29 13:40:49 UTC

British engineer Tommy Flowers the designer the Colossus is designed to break the complex Lorenz ciphers used by the Nazis during World War II ,each using as many as 2,500 vacuum tubes. A series of pulleys transported continuous rolls of punched paper tape containing possible solutions to a particular code. Colossus reduced the time to break Lorenz messages from weeks to hours.

Era 1101 1950

30bathineniv — 2024-08-29 13:46:32 UTC

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

Edsac 1950

30bathineniv — 2024-08-29 13:46:52 UTC

EDSAC was the first practical stored-program computer to provide a regular computing service,The EDSAC project was led by Cambridge professor and director of the Cambridge Computation Laboratory,One major advance in programming was Wilkes' use of a library of short programs, called “subroutines,” stored on punched paper tapes and used for performing common repetitive calculations within a larger program.

IAS computer operational 1952

30bathineniv — 2024-09-03 12:48:31 UTC

The IAS machine was the first electronic computer built at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey.The notion of storing both data and instructions in memory became known as the ‘stored program concept’ to distinguish it from earlier methods of instructing a computer. The IAS computer was designed for scientific calculations and it performed essential work for the US atomic weapons program.

3C DDP-116 1965

30bathineniv — 2024-09-03 12:52:15 UTC

The basic computer cost $28,500.Designed by engineer Gardner Hendrie for Computer Control Corporation (CCC), the DDP-116 is announced at the 1965.

Cray 1 supercomputer 1976

30bathineniv — 2024-09-05 11:53:42 UTC

Each Cray-1 took a full year to assemble and test and cost about $10 million.reduces the length of wires and thus the time signals need to travel across them. High packaging density of integrated circuits and a novel Freon cooling system also contributed to its speed.

The computer programme debut on the BBC 1981

30bathineniv — 2024-09-05 12:07:39 UTC

Acorn produces a popular computer, the BBC Microcomputer System, so viewers at home could follow along on their own home computers as they watched the program.The machine was expandable, with ports for cassette storage, serial interface and rudimentary networking.

Sony Vaio series 1996

30bathineniv — 2024-09-05 12:12:35 UTC

Sony had manufactured and sold computers in Japan, but the VAIO signals their entry into the global computer market.The VAIO line of computers would be best known for laptops were designed with communications and audio-video capabilities at the forefront, including innovative designs that incorporated TV and radio tuners, web cameras, and handwriting recognition. The line was discontinued in 2014.

APPLE Kindle is released

30bathineniv — 2024-09-05 12:14:16 UTC