Computer
History Articles
Feature Article
The
History of Modern Computers
An index to
famous inventors in the computer business, over twenty-six fully illustrated
features cover the history of computers from Konrad Zuse and the first
programmable in 1936 - to today's computers.
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Computers:
History and Development
Brief outline
of early history and a description of the next five generations of computers.
Triumph
of the Nerds
Timeline of
computer history and some of the major figures involved.
The
History of Computers During My Lifetime
The history
of the computers of the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Computers:
Mind Machine Web Museum
Virtual computer
history gallery, full of rare and surprisingly beautiful photos (1955 Geniac
Computer or 1960 ThinkATron
computer game.)
Brands
Apple
Computers
Apple Lisa,
the first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface. Apple Macintosh,
the famous Apple home computer. More apple history.
Atari
Computers
A history
of the entertaining game computer.
Cray
Supercomputer
Seymour Cray,
inventor of the Cray Supercomputer.
Computer
Peripherals
History of
compact disks, floppy disks etc.
Laptop
Computers
Hard to decide
who was first.
Ram
- Random Access Memory
Robert Dennard
was the inventor of ram: random access memory, the device was patented
in 1968 by Dennard.
Punch
Cards
Herman Hollerith,
invented a punch-card tabulation machine system for statistical computation.
Ethernet
Robert Metcalfe
and Xerox invented network computing.
Transistors
John Bardeen,
Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley invented the transistor in 1947.
George
R. Stibitz
Inventor,
recognized as the father of the modern digital computer in 1939.
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