My radiant padlet by William Wang

Hewlett-Packard is founded 1939

30wangw — 2024-09-02 17:19:04 UTC

David Packard and Bill Hewlett started a company named Packard and Hewlett in their garage in San Alto California

First Colossus operational at Bletchley Park-1944

30wangw — 2024-09-02 17:24:12 UTC

The Colossus was invented by a British engineer named Tommy Flowers and was designed to break the ciphers that the Nazis were using during World War 2

Ferranti Mark I sold-1951

30wangw — 2024-09-02 17:28:14 UTC

The Ferranti Mark 1 was the first commercially available general purpose computer and Manchester University was the first to purchase it.

First Kenbak-1 sold

30wangw — 2024-09-09 12:26:38 UTC

The Kenbak-1 was sold at a steep $750 which only had 267 megabytes of storage and only 45 were sold

Texas Instruments TI 99/4 is released

30wangw — 2024-09-09 12:29:18 UTC

The TI 99/4 had one of the best GPUs in a home computer and had 1 speak and spell game. The TI 99/4 was very popular and sold well

PowerBook series of laptops is introduced

30wangw — 2024-09-09 12:32:17 UTC

All three power books featured an internal floppy disk, trackball and palm resets

The Amazon Kindle is released

30wangw — 2024-09-09 12:38:07 UTC

The Amazon Kindle was a wireless device that was connected to Amazon, It was populer and people were buying so much that delivery systems were slowed down

The Apple iPad is released

30wangw — 2024-09-10 10:33:11 UTC

The Apple iPad had the components of a phone just a lot bigger and alot of games and accessories

Apple Retina Display

30wangw — 2024-09-10 10:34:02 UTC

The Apple Retina display makes using and seeing the iPhone a lot easier