Genesis Bautista 3 rd Period Mrs. Rhine
1942 ABC Computer Inventors: John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic computer. It represented computing, binary system or arithmetic, parallel processing, regenerative memory and computing functions. +/
1962 IBM Mainframe 7094 September 1962,seven index registers, had a distinctive box on top that displayed lights for the four new index registers, (because earlier computers only had three index registers instead of seven.) Minor changes in the instruction formats, particularly the way the additional index registers were addressed, sometimes caused problems.
1971 Datapoint 2200 Invented by Phil Ray and Gus Roche. Built-in travel keyboard CPU: 8 bit, made from standard TTL components. RAM:2k, expandable to 16k Storage: 2 tape drives
1974 Mark-8 Minicomputer Invented by Jon Titus RAM:256 bytes CPU:8008-MHz Simple machine with a few IC’s Only sold in kits Also known as “Your Personal Computer”
1981 IBM Personal Computer (IBM 5150) Invented by Don Estridge who is also known as “Father of the IBM PC” 40k Read Only Memory 16k User Memory Powered by 8088 microprocessor working in speeds measured in millionths of a second Printing Size of a portable typewriter
1983 Apple Lisa Computer CPU: Motorola 68000,5MHz RAM:1meg 3 expansion slots and storage of 2 5-1/4 inch floppy drives External 5 meg hard drive Ports; 1 parallel,2 serial ports “Lisa” was also the daughter of Apple co-Founder Steve Jobbs
1985 Dell Turbo PC Invented by Michael Dell 8088 processor that ran at 8MHz Sold for $795 PC limited advertised it’s systems in national computer magazines for sale directly to consumers and custom assembled each ordered unit according to a selection of options
2010 Apple Ipad Browse the web, s, photos, videos, music, games, e-books 1.5 pounds Multi-touch Watch movies, TV shows, rotates in my direction, touch keyboard and import photos from a Mac or digital camera 9.7 in. LED backlight display Powered by an A4 chip
3 rd Generation Mac Book Pro June 11 th 2012 Retina Display (High Resolution) Unibody form factor 15 inch screen Thunderbolt technology RAM 8GB built in onboard Intel HD Graphics Replacement of hard-disk w/ solid-state
Dell XPS One 27 August 30 th 2012 8 on a 10 point touch display Screen Quad HD resolution 16GB memory,2TB hard drive Offers choice of Core i5 or Core i7 Ivy Bridge Processors Wireless keyboard
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