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The Digital Group “System 4” (circa 1977) The History of Digital Group: What to know The Digital Group was a Denver, Colorado-based firm […]
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Alan Kay was the person who conceived of the Dynabook. The History of DynaBook: A Complete Guide Ph.D. candidate Alan Kay envisions […]
Three Facts about Hewlett Packard 9100A The Hewlett Packard 9100A is considered the earliest documented use of the term “personal computer.” Despite […]
From today’s perspective, a calculator is decidedly not a computer. You couldn’t do a fraction of the things on a […]
Computer Trainer Model 650 The Computer Trainer Model 650 (named also CT-650), developed by Irving Becker, was one of the earliest […]
Apple II with 2 floppy drives 4 Facts About Apple II The Apple II’s central processor unit was based on a MOS […]
The Datapoint 2200 was manufactured from 1970-79. Datapoint 2200 was a standalone computer terminal that performed several functions, including printing payroll […]
Can you imagine a world where our computers, phones, tablets, televisions, and even something as simple as our car’s digital […]
Release Date 1st March 1973 Creator Butler Lampson, Charles P. (Chuck) Thacker Original Price $32,000 Units Sold 2000+ Butler W. Lampson (left photo), the visioneer of Xerox Alto […]
MITS founder Ed RobertsSpencer Smith, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 4 Facts About The MITS Altair 8800 The MITS Altair 8800 […]
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History of Computers and Computing, The birth of the modern computer Where does the birth of the modern computer originate?©Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com So, who […]
Whirlwind Computer Jay Wright Forrester was born on July 14, 1918, and grew up on a cattle ranch in Anselmo, Nebraska, […]
Three Facts about the SSEM Contrary to other early computers at the time, the SSEM didn’t rely on a paper-tape reader […]
PDP-1©Alexey Komarov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons – License 4 Facts About PDP-1 The PDP- 1 is well-known for being the […]
The Mark I Console Five Facts about Ferranti Mark 1 Computer Mark 1 displayed a 20-bit word as a single line of […]
5 Facts about SAGE Computer System The full form of SAGE is a Semi-Automatic Ground-Environment computer. The weight of SAGE Computer System […]
History of Computers and Computing, The birth of the electronic computer, Electronic computer ABC (Atanasoff/Berry Computer), John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry, […]
6 Facts about The DEC PDP-11 Computer If the DEC PDP-11 computer were to be manufactured today, it would cost around […]
: Max Newman designed a machine called Heath Robinson after the cartoonist designer of fantastic machines, which decrypted secret messages. Flowers […]
: Since the 1970’s, Cray has been a leading supercomputer company, and is now a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Today, […]
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General View of the ENIAC 6 Facts about ENIAC Computer ENIAC, which meant “Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer,” was built between 1943 […]
: In 1936 John Atanasoff and physicist Glen Murphy built a small analog calculator called the Laplaciometer, which was used […]
3 Facts about Atlas Computer Atlas is considered one of the first supercomputers. It was the first computer to use virtual memory. It […]
The SEAC Scanner (with Control Console in background) 5 Facts About Computer Scanners The history of Computer scanners began when Rudolf Hell […]
Design of semiconductor transistor©CatKillerroddhullandemu@modi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons – License 4 Facts about the Semiconductor Transistor A semiconductor transistor is […]
DATAR first plot of the invention 4 Facts About DATAR The work on the Comprehensive Display System (CDS) by the Royal Navy, […]
4 Facts about Touch Screen More than 90% of touchscreens are capacitive. Touchscreens have an average durability period of 3 years. Almost all […]
4 Facts about Magnetic Tape Magnetic tapes were initially created for audio storage. The device is approximately 20% faster than other types […]
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Douglas Engelbart in 1984, showing the first mouse and a new one.©History-Computer.com Four Facts About the Computer Mouse Douglas Engelbart and Bill […]
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3 Facts About Microprocessor Microprocessors were initially called “Microcomputer on a chip” until 1972. You need at least two (2) months to […]
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Paul Eisler invented the printed circuit board in 1936. Four Facts about the Printed Circuit Board The first circuit board of any […]
Dennis Hayes’s company, Hayes Microcomputer Products, is a modem manufacturer. His company’s Hayes Command Set is widely used in most […]
Electromechanical Relay The electromechanical relay, used as a constructive part of some early calculators and computers (see computers of Zuse, Aiken […]
Computer keyboards are peripheral data input devices modeled after the typewriter keyboards era. Since the 1970s, computer keyboards have seen […]
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Xerox 9700 – The first laser printer invented by Gary Starkweather at Xerox research lab in Webster, New York. 6 Facts […]
5 Facts about Hard Disk A hard disk contains numerous substances. Hard disk typically has limited spaces. The world’s smallest hard disk was […]
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Gustav Tauschek in 1933 Magnetic drum memory was a magnetic data storage device. Since its founding in 1932, the drum became […]
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3 Facts about Liquid Crystal Display Magnets do not affect LCDs. At least 200million+ Liquid Crystal Display TVs get sold every year. LCDs […]
Most people know that the floppy disk was developed in 1967 by a team led by Alan Shugart at IBM. […]
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About the Thermionic Tube: The Thermionic tube goes by many names, to include vacuum tubes, vacuum diodes, thermionic tubes, […]
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory. about Dynamic Random Access Memory: Robert Dennard invented dynamic Random Access Memory in 1966 at […]
Compact Disc History The first workable digital compact disc device, the precursor on now-ubiquitous CD/DVDs, was invented in the late 1960s […]
Modern-day display technologies continue to improve with each passing year, but throughout the mid-1900s, they didn’t really move an inch. […]
Herman Hollerith and his first tabulator from 1890 about Tabulating Machines Some significant facts about Tabulating machines are as follows. The […]
Optical character recognition, often abbreviated as OCR, plays an enormous part in the text recognition software many of us rely […]
Universal Serial Bus Specs VersionsMaximum Data Transfer SpeedConnector TypesMaximum Cable LengthMaximum Charging PowerUSB 112MBpsType A & Type B3m500mAUSB-2480MpbsSupports all connector types.5m15WUSB […]
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Robert Noyce (left) and Jack Kilby (right) were two of the three developers of the Integrated Circuit. IC stands for integrated […]
The Audion Vaccum Tube invented by Dr. Lee De Forest.©Gregory F. Maxwell PGP:0xB0413BFA, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons – […]
Leonardo da Vinci is the quintessential Renaissance Man. ©Colombini, Cosomo, -1812, engraver, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons – License The Sketch of […]
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a well-known German mathematician, physicist, and philosopher who lived in the 17th and 18th centuries. ©Christoph Bernhard […]