Allison Piccini History of Computers by Allison Piccini

1930's - Hewlett- Packard is founded

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David Packard and Bill Hewlett founded their company, HP, in a garage in Palo Alto, California. Their products quickly became popular. Walt Disney ordered some of their products so they could show Fantasia in theaters in 1940

1940's - First computer program to run on a computer

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The University of Manchester develop a experiment machine. This experiment was designed to test technology memory. The results of this experiment lead to having the highest memory access for computes.

1950's - Directs keyboard input to computers

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at MIT scientist stared to experiment with direct keyboard input to computers. At this time in history users had to fed programs into computers using punch cards or paper tape. Then scientist realized that using a keyboard since it was cheaper and more flexible.

1960's - Olivetti programma 101 is released

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In 1965 the Olivetti Programma was released. This was a printing calculator. This machine could add, subtract, multiplication, division and square roots. 40,000 of this product were sold, and 10 were sold to NASA for the Apollo space project.

1970's - Apple 2 is introduced

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The Apple 2 had a main logic board, switching power supply, keyboard, case, manual, game paddles and cassette tapes. Using colorful graphic for the first time ever Apple was able to sell millions of Apple 2 between 1977 and 1993. These amazing sales make the Apple 2 one of the longest lived lines of personal computers .

1980's - Apple Computer launches the Macintosh

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Apple introduced the Macintosh during the 1984 Super Bowl. The Macintosh was the first successful computer with a mouse. The Applications came with the computer like Macpaint and Macwrite. These features showed off Apple's What you see if what you get word processing

1990's - Apple ships the first Newton

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Apple's first hand held computer was the Newton. The Newton had many features current hand held computers have today. The problem was the handwriting recognition didn't work as well as hoped and was discontinued in 1998.

2000's - The Amazon Kindle is released

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In the past many companies tried to release a electronic reading system but Amazon was the first to succeed. The first Kindle had wireless access to connect with Amazon for content. The device also had a SD slot for increased storage.

2010's - Apple Watch

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Making a computer into watch size had been tried so when Apple did it many people were very happy. Using a version if the Apple IOS system and sensors for environment and health monitoring, the watch was designed to incorporate with Iphones and Mac Books. On the day of the release over a million units were ordered. Many people were happy but some people complained about limited battery and high price.