Computer history by Sri Nikesh Yerra

The Complex Number Calculator ( 1940)

29yerras — 2024-01-26 13:06:25 UTC

The Complex Number Calculator was made by the Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1939.

This Complex number Calculator was designed by Scientist by George Stibitz

ERA 1101 (1950)

29yerras — 2024-01-26 13:10:43 UTC

The ERA 1101 was one of the first commercially produced computers at the time.

The ERA 1101 was designed by ERA but it was built by Remington- Road.

DEC PDP-1 (1960)

29yerras — 2024-01-26 13:14:57 UTC

The typical PDP-1 used to sell for $120,000 includes a cathode ray tube graphic display, paper tape input/output, needs no air conditioning and requires only one operator.

More than 50 PDP-1s were sold during this time period.

Amdahl 470 (1970)

29yerras — 2024-01-26 13:19:18 UTC

The Amdahl 470 was made by Amdahl corporation to compete with another company.

The 470V/6 was the company’s first product and ran the same software.

VIC-20 (1980)

29yerras — 2024-01-26 13:23:15 UTC

The VIC-20 was released by Commondare as a successor of another product.

The VIC-20 was a huge success becoming the first computer at the time to sell millions of units.

Touchstone Delta supercomputer system ( 1990)

29yerras — 2024-01-26 13:29:10 UTC

The Intel’s Touchstone Delta has 512 processors operating independently.

It reached a high of Reaching 32 gigaflops (32 billion floating point operations per second).

First camera phone (2000)

29yerras — 2024-01-26 13:31:28 UTC

The First camera Phone was introduced by Japan's Softbank .

The camera had a maximum resolution of 0.11 megapixels a 256-color display.