Kevin Eberle HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
COMPUTERS
200A AUDIO OSCILLATOR Hewlett-Packard was founded in 1939 in Palo Alto, California Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator It quickly became a popular piece of test equipment for engineers Walt Disney Studios purchased eight of these new machines to use to make sound effects for the movie “Fantasia”
APPLE II Apple was founded by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in Palo Alto on April 1, 1976 The Apple II became an instant success when released in 1977 Included case assembly, manual, game paddles, and cassette tape with the computer game "Breakout.“ The Apple II produced brilliant color graphics
PEOPLE
STEVE JOBS Cofounder of Apple, a company born in 1976 Was kicked out of the company by President John Sculley Came back as the head executive eleven years later Came back with a payroll of one dollar a year Saved the company from near bankruptcy Died October 5, 2011, after a long battle with a pancreas tumor and cancer
ALAN TURING Published a paper, "On Computable Numbers," in 1936 Proved instrumental in code-breaking efforts during World War II A mathematical genius Committed suicide June 7, 1954
STORAGE
FLOPPY DISKETTE An IBM team, originally led by David Noble, invented the 8- inch floppy diskette Initially designed for use in loading microcode into the controller for the IBM "Merlin" Quickly won widespread acceptance as a program and data-storage medium Easily transferable from one drive to another, making it very popular
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