Archive for January 1970
Computer History 1968
Data General Corp., started by a group of
engineers that had left Digital Equipment Corp., introduced.
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Computer History 1966
The
Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contracted with
the University of Illinois.
Computer History 1965
Digital
Equipment Corp. introduced the PDP-8, the first commercially successful
minicomputer. The.
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Computer History,
IBM,
Computer History 1964
IBM
announced the System/360, a family of six mutually compatible computers
and 40 peripherals that.
Computer History 1962
The LINC (Laboratory Instrumentation
Computer) offered the first real time laboratory data processing..
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Computer History,
Computer History 1961
According to Datamation magazine, IBM had
an 81.2-percent share of the computer market in 1961, the.
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Computer History,
IBM,
Computer History 1960
The precursor to the minicomputer, DECĀ“s
PDP-1 sold for $120,000. One of 50 built, the average PDP-1.
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Computer History,
Computer History 1959
IBMĀ“s
7000 series mainframes were the companyĀ“s first transistorized
computers. At the top of the.
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Computer History,
IBM,
Computer History 1958
SAGE ā Semi-Automatic Ground Environment ā
linked hundreds of radar stations in the United States and.
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Computer History,
Computer History 1956
MIT researchers built the TX-0, the first
general-purpose, programmable computer built with transistors..
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Computer History,
MIT,
Computer History 1954
The
IBM 650 magnetic drum calculator established itself as the first
mass-produced computer, with.
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Computer History,
IBM,
Computer History 1953
IBM
shipped its first electronic computer, the 701. During three years of
production, IBM sold 19.
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Computer History,
IBM,
Computer History 1952
John
von NeumannĀ“s IAS computer became operational at the Institute for
Advanced Studies in Princeton,.
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Computer History,
Computer History 1951
MITĀ“s
Whirlwind debuted on Edward R. MurrowĀ“s "See It Now" television series.
Project director Jay.
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Computer History,
IBM,
Computer History 1950
Engineering
Research Associates of Minneapolis built the ERA 1101, the first
commercially produced.
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Computer History,
Computer History 1949
Maurice
Wilkes assembled the EDSAC, the first practical stored-program
computer, at Cambridge University..
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Computer History,
Computer History 1948
IBMĀ“s Selective Sequence Electronic
Calculator computed scientific data in public display near the.
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Computer History,
IBM,
Computer History 1946
In February, the public got its first
glimpse of the ENIAC, a machine built by John Mauchly and J..
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Computer History,
Computer History 1945
John von Neumann wrote "First Draft of a
Report on the EDVAC" in which he outlined the architecture.
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Computer History,
Computer History 1944
Harvard Mark-1 is completed. Conceived by
Harvard professor Howard Aiken, and designed and built by.
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Computer History,
IBM,
Computer History 1943
Project Whirlwind begins. During World
War II, the U.S. Navy approached the Massachusetts Institute.
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Computer History,
MIT,
Computer History 1942
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) is
completed. After successfully demonstrating a proof-of-concept.
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Computer History,
Computer History 1941
Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 computer.
The Z3 was an early computer built by German engineer.
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Computer History,
Computer History 1940
The Complex Number Calculator (CNC) is
completed. In 1939, Bell Telephone Laboratories completed this.
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Computer History,
Computer History 1939
Hewlett-Packard is Founded. David
Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto,.
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Computer History,