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The computer

By Danny Moreira Franco

  • The Z3 computer

    The Z3 computer
    The Z3, an early computer built by German en gineer Konrad Zuse working in complete isolation from developments elsewhere, uses 2,300 relays, performs floating point binary arithmetic, and has a 22-bit word length.

  • Harvard Mark 1

    Harvard Mark 1
    Conceived byHarvard phisics professor Howard Aiken, and designed and built byIBM, the Harvard Mark1 is a room-sized, relay-based calculator.

  • The Apple-1

    The Apple-1
    The Apple-1 is a single-board computer for hobbyists.With an order for50 assembled systems from Mountain View, California computer store The Byte Shop in hand, the pair started a new company, naming it Apple Computer.

  • Atari Model 400 and 800

    Atari Model 400 and 800
    Atari desings two microcomputers with game capabilities:the Model 400 and Model 800.

  • The ZX80

    The ZX80
    This very small home computeris available in the UK as a kit for 79$. Inside was a Z80 microprocessor and a built-in BASIC language interpreter.

  • The Personal Computer(PC)

    The Personal Computer(PC)
    IBM'S brand recognition, along with a massive marketing campaign, ignites the fast growth of the personal computer market with the announcement of its own personal computer (PC).

  • The Commodore 64

    The Commodore 64
    The C64,as it is better known,sells for 595$, comes with 64 KB of RAM and features impressive graphics.

  • The Deskpro386

    The Deskpro386
    Compaq beats IBM to the market announces the Deskpro 386, the first computer on the market to use Intel's new 80386 chip, a 32-bit microprocessor with 275,000 transistoron each chip.