They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
Computers, and technology in general, have come a long way in today’s world. The modern world is actually shaped and defined through the usage of computers, those neat little gadgets that do the hard work for you. Modern computers are also perfectly capable of entertaining, organizing, reminding, even surprising you. That wasn’t always the case. Here is glimpse of the history of computers and their humble beginnings. These computers may not have been as powerful as modern computers, but they’re old black and white photos are intriguing nevertheless. If for no other reason, then because those old computers were capable of filling a whole room with their robust circuitry. Enjoy these old photos of the first generation of computers. AVIDAC, Argonne’s first digital computer, began operation in January 1953. It was built by the Physics Division for $250,000. Pictured is pioneer Argonne computer scientist Jean F. Hall. The CSIRAC was Australia’s first computer. The name stands for CSIR originally stood for “Council for Scientific and Industrial Research”. This name was in effect from 1926 to 1949. The computer history at NTNU is much older than the computer departments. The very first computer at NTNU was called DIANA, or DIfferential ANAlysator. This was an analog electronic computer built by Jens Glad Balchen and the Division of Cybernetics in the years between 1952 and 1955. A press conference for what is considered the first computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC), was held at the University of Pennsylvania on February 1, 1946. The machine (shown here with a technician) took up an entire room, weighed 30 tons and used more than 18,000 vacuum tubes to perform functions such as counting to 5,000 in one second. ENIAC, costing $450,000, was designed by the U.S. Army during World War II to make artillery calculations. The development of ENIAC paved the way for modern computer technology–but even today’s average calculator possesses more computing power than ENIAC did. First ever apple computer running windows. This is an Apple II with a monochrome screen and PC emulator hardware installed. The board was called the 88 Card, “the only fully functional 8088 processor for the Apple II personcal computer. A man and woman working at a Ferranti Pegasus computer. This computer was a classic 1950s/1960s mainframe installation, taking up the majority of space in a room. First hard disk. The rotating drum technology allowed ERA to deliver the world’s first production stored-program computer (ATLAS – ERA 1101) to a customer site in October 1950. The engineers making the installation delivery to the National Security Agency predecessor were Frank Mullaney and Jack Hill. As shown in the photo below, these drum products came in various sizes. They were first used in several classified processors, then in the early 1100 computer series and the UNIVAC SS-80 and SS-90 computers. Dr. Cohen and Sid Rubens are credited with patenting the rotating magnetic drum. The drum development engineers and management shown in this early 50’s photo, left to right are: William Keye, Arnold Hendrickson, Robert Perking, Frank Mullaney, Dr. Arnold Cohen, and John ‘Jack’ Hill. The first ever computer in Latvia was developed and made at the start-up Institute of Electronics and Computer Science in early sixties. No computers were made industrially in USSR at that time. Therefore successful completion of that project certainly represented a significant achievement. Built on a lot of vacuum tubes, the computer actually worked well and was used for supporting research activities for several years till the time when it became possible to replace it by a more powerful industrially made computer. IBM 701. IBM’s first computer. Introduced in 1952, the 701 was designed for scientific work and research, which later led to the development of the high-level FORTRAN language. Nineteen machines were built, a record volume for such a machine in that era. Its internal memory contained 2,048 36-bit words of electrostatic memory and 8,192 words of magnetic drum memory (see early memories). It used magnetic tapes for storage and was one of the first machines to use plastic-based tapes instead of metal tapes. See IBM 650 and IBM 1401. At General Electric’s Aircraft Jet Engine Plant in Evendale, Ohio, this 1954 photo shows GE manager Herbert Grosch explaining the 701 to Ronald Reagan. Reagan was a TV personality for GE at the time. Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA. A computer manufacturer founded in 1970 by Dr. Gene Amdahl, chief architect of the IBM System/360. In 1975, Amdahl installed its first IBM-compatible mainframe, the 470/V6. In 1979, Amdahl left the company he founded to form Trilogy, which tried without success to make the world’s largest chip based on wafer scale integration.
The Apple 1 computer, hailed as the first 'real' home computer, was hand built by Steve Jobs and his Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in a California garage in 1976.
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In the last decades of the 20th century, a revolution in information technology transformed commerce and consciousness, just as the printing press transformed civilization 500 years before. These advances in computer technology and communications would have remained the province of professional scientists and mega-business if not for the introduction of the personal computer, and no person played a greater role in bringing the computer into homes and offices all over the world than William H. Gates, III. Bill Gates was a teenage computer whiz when he dropped out of Harvard to start his own company, Microsoft. Through a brilliant combination of technical prowess and business insight, Gates made Microsoft the indispensable supplier of operating systems and office software to computer users around the world. If you use a computer to write a letter, compose an email or visit a website, chances are you're using Microsoft software. Microsoft’s uncontested dominance of the personal computer software market made Bill Gates the richest man in the world for many years. He has used his personal wealth to attack the most intractable global problems of disease and poverty through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Roger Dingledine developed Tor, which was awarded a Free Software Foundation award.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
They’re looking to the future of quantum computing, energy policy, robotics, and more.
