Computer History Project

By JedLee

  • ENIAC

    ENIAC
    computer museum 1946The Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer was the first computer in the world. It was used to help in the war effort during World War 2.

  • IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator

    IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator
    computer museum 1948The IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator computed scientific data in public display near the company's Manhattan headquarters. It produced moon-position tables that were used to plot the course of the 1969 Apollo flight to the moon.

  • EDSAC

    EDSAC
    computer museum 1949The EDSAC means Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator. It was the first practical stored-program computer at Cambridge University.

  • ERA 1101

    ERA 1101
    computer museum 1950The ERA 1101 is the first commercially produced computer. The first customer was the U.S. Navy. It held one million bits on its magnetic drum which was the earliest magnetic storage devices.

  • LINC

    LINC
    computer museum 1962The LINC stands for Laboratory Instrumentation Computer. The LINC offered the first real time laboratory data processing. It was designed by Wesley Clark at Lincoln Laboraties.

  • Apollo Guidance Computer

    Apollo Guidance Computer
    linkThe Apollo Guidnce Computer made its debut in space. It orbit the earth on Apollo 7 and on Apollo 11 to the lunar surface. it was used for astronuats to communicate with thwe computer by pressing a two digit code adn the appropriate syntactic category into the display and keyboard unit.

  • Alto

    Alto
    linkThe Alto was designed by the researchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Researcher Center. The Alto is the first work station with a built-in mouse for input. It was never sold commercially. The Alto stored several files simultaneously in windows, offered menus and icons, and could link to a local area network.

  • VAX 11/780

    VAX 11/780
    linkThe VAX 11/780 is made from Digital Equipment Corp. It featured the ability to address up to 4.3 gigabytes of virtual memory, making it providing hundreds of times the capacity of most minicomputers.

  • Macintosh

    Macintosh
    linkApple launched the Macintosh in the year 1984. It was the first successful mouse-driven computer with a graphic user interface. It was based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor, but more afforable.

  • PC Jr. and PC-AT

    PC Jr. and PC-AT
    linkIBM released the PC JR and the PC-AT on 1984 of the month of March. The PC Jr. failed, but the PC-AT was faster than the original PC. The PC-AT was successful with its notable increases in performance and storage capacity.

  • Amiga 1000

    Amiga 1000
    linkThe Amiga 1000 provided audio and video capabilities beyond other computers durig that time. It developed add-on components and allowing it to upgrade easly.

  • Connection Machine

    Connection Machine
    linkThe Connection Machine was made by Daniel Hills of Thinking Machines Corp. It moved artifical intelligence a step forward. The Connection Machine used up to 65,536 processors and complete several billion operations per second.

  • PC/RT

    PC/RT
    linkThe PC/RT was realesed by IBM and MIPS. It did 80 percent of the loding and storing memory.

  • PS/2

    PS/2
    linkTHe PS/2 machines were created by IBM. It had a 3.5 inch floppy disk drive and video graphics array standard for IBM computers.

  • NeXT

    NeXT
    linkNeXt was made by Steve Jobs. It was a failure ,but it was an important innovation.