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REVOLUTION: PUNCHED CARDS REVOLUTION: BIRTH OF THE REVOLUTION: BIRTH OF THE COMPUTER REVOLUTION: REAL-TIME COMPUTING

Hollerith Electric ENIAC, 1946 ENIGMA, ca. 1935 Raytheon Apollo Guidance Tabulating System, 1890 Used in World War II to calculate Few technologies were as Computer, 1966 This device helped the US gun trajectories, only a few piec- decisive in World War II as the This 70 lb. box, built using the government complete the 1890 es remain of this groundbreaking top-secret German encryption new technology of Integrated census in record time and, in American computing system. machine known as ENIGMA. Circuits (ICs), guided Apollo 11 the process, launched the use of ENIAC used 18,000 vacuum Breaking its code was a full-time astronauts to the Moon and back in July of 1969, the first manned punched cards in business. IBM tubes and took several days task for Allied code breakers who moon landing in human history. used the Hollerith system as the to program. invented remarkable comput- The AGC was a lifeline for the basis of its business machines. ing machines to help solve the astronauts throughout the eight ENIGMA riddle. day mission. REVOLUTION: MEMORY & STORAGE REVOLUTION: REVOLUTION: MINICOMPUTERS REVOLUTION: AI & ROBOTICS

IBM RAMAC Disk Drive, 1956 Cray-1 , 1976 Kitchen Computer, 1969 SRI Shakey the Robot, 1969 Seeking a faster method of The stunning Cray-1 was the Made by Honeywell and sold by Shakey was the first robot that processing data than using fastest computer in the world. Neiman Marcus, this fanciful could reason about its actions punched cards, IBM invented the Its legendary inventor, Seymour computer was designed as a sys- without human control. Special world’s first disk drive in its San Cray, designed it in a circular tem for housewives to store their software let it create a “map” Jose laboratories. This stack of shape to keep the intercon- recipes. None were sold. of its environment, which let it 50 disks held about 3.8 MB—or necting wires short, increasing move about freely, even avoiding enough space for one song today. speed. It was used in weather obstacles placed in its path. forecasting, bomb design, and cryptography.

REVOLUTION: COMPUTER GAMES REVOLUTION: PERSONAL REVOLUTION: MOBILE COMPUTING REVOLUTION: NETWORKING & THE WEB

Atari Pong Prototype, 1972 Apple-1, 1976 Osborne 1, 1981 Server Engine, 1999 Remember Pong, the must-have This simple-looking circuit board This was one of the first com- In its early days, Google was on gift of 1975? See Atari’s original is the genesis of Apple Computer. mercially successful portable a tight budget and built its own Pong prototype and play a live Designed by Apple co-founder minicomputers. How portable servers out of easily available Pong game with a friend! , users just needed was it? Lift one for yourself in our commercial computer parts. to add a keyboard, power supply, Mobile Computing gallery! This server engine, one of and a TV set to have a working many identical systems, used computer system. 80 PCs and some networking equipment to answer search requests sent to Google.

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Last Updated: 2017_06 SRI Shakey Cray-1 the Robot Supercomputer

Kitchen Computer

IBM RAMAC Disk Drive

Raytheon Apollo Guidance Computer

ENIAC

Atari Pong Prototype ENIGMA

Apple-1

Osborne 1 Hollerith Electric Google Tabulating Server System Engine

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