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ENIAC (/ ˈ ɛ n i æ k /; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) [1] [2] was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Other computers had some of these features, but ENIAC was the first to have them all.
The first digital electronic computer was developed in the period April 1936 - June 1939, in the IBM Patent Department, Endicott, New York by Arthur Halsey Dickinson. [35] [36] [37] In this computer IBM introduced, a calculating device with a keyboard, processor and electronic output (display). The competitor to IBM was the digital electronic ...
OpenVMS V1.0 (First OpenVMS AXP (Alpha) specific version, November 1992) OS/2 2.0 (First i386 32-bit based version) Plan 9 First Edition (First public release was made available to universities) RSTS/E 10.1 (Last stable release, September 1992) SLS; Solaris 2.0 (Successor to SunOS 4.x; based on SVR4 instead of BSD) Windows 3.1; 1993 IBM 4690 ...
The history of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. A personal computer is one intended for interactive individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user's requests are filtered through operating staff, or a time-sharing system in which one large processor is shared by many individuals.
A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times, and the best ...
On Dec. 26, 1982, Time's editors selected the first non-human recipient since the award's inception when it named the personal computer "Machine of the Year" for 1982.
He founded one of the earliest computer businesses in 1941, producing the Z4, which became the world's first commercial computer. In 1946, he designed the first high-level programming language, Plankalkül. [59] In 1948, the Manchester Baby was completed; it was the world's first electronic digital computer that ran programs stored in its ...
1985: Case formally launches Quantum Computer Services from the "ashes" of Control Video, starting the company that would become AOL. 1989 : Quantum Computer Services is renamed America Online.