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

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