My Fancy History of Computer's padlet by Evelyn Briglia

1930s - Hp is founded

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Hewlett Packard was founded in a garage. They made sound equipment that Disney purchased to test out Fantasia

1940s - CNC is completed

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George Stibitz designed this calculator. The company that made the calculator a reality was Bell Telephone Laboratories.

1950s - ERA 1101 introduced

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This was one of the first commercially introduced products of ERA. Their first costumer was the US Navy. ERA desingned it and Remington - Rand built it.

1960s - DEC PDP - 1 introduced

29brigliae — 2023-11-06 15:35:08 UTC

This computer sells for $120,000 and does not need any air-conditioning and only needs one operator. More than 50 of them were sold.

1970s - Amdahl Corporation introduces the Amdahl 470

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Gene Amdahl was the creator of the IBM System/360, He started his own company, Amdahl Corporation, so that way he could compete in mainframe computer systems with IBM.

1980s - Commodore introduces the VIC-20

29brigliae — 2023-11-08 15:07:41 UTC

Commodore released the VIC-20 home computer as the successor to the Commodore PET personal computer.

1090s - Intel's Touchstone Delta supercomputer system comes online

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At 32 gigaflops (32 billion floating operations per second), Intel’s Touchstone Delta has 512 processors operating all by themselves, made 2-dimensional

2000s - First camera phone introduced

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This phone was made by Japan's SoftBank the J-Phone J-SH04 is a Sharp-manufactured digital phone with an integrated camera.

2010s - Apple Retina display

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It is 3.5 inches and has 4 times more pixels. It has 326 pixels per inch. The constant radio is 4 times better, and it has a wide view screen.