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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
ROBOTS & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
UNIMATE
• The first industrial robot
• Began work at General Motors
• Obeyed step-by-step commands stored on a magnetic drum
• 4,000-pound arm sequenced and stacked hot pieces of die-cast metal
• Originally automated the manufacture of TV picture tubes
• Created by Joe Engelberger and George Devol
THE END
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