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First use of character animation in a computer-animated television series. The Crow: 1994 First deceased actor (Brandon Lee) to be re-created through CGI. The Flintstones: First CGI-rendered fur. [35] The Mask: First use of CGI to transform a live actor into a photorealistic cartoon character. ReBoot: First half-hour computer-animated TV series ...
Third-generation computers were offered well into the 1990s; for example the IBM ES9000 9X2 announced April 1994 [30] used 5,960 ECL chips to make a 10-way processor. [31] Other third-generation computers offered in the 1990s included the DEC VAX 9000 (1989), built from ECL gate arrays and custom chips, [32] and the Cray T90 (1995).
The Computer History in time and space, Graphing Project, an attempt to build a graphical image of computer history, in particular operating systems. The Computer Revolution/Timeline at Wikibooks "File:Timeline.pdf - Engineering and Technology History Wiki" (PDF). ethw.org. 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-10-31
Logo as The Computer Chronicles from 1984 to 1989. The series was created [4] by Stewart Cheifet (later the show's co-host), who was then the station manager of the College of San Mateo's KCSM-TV (now independent non-commercial KPJK). The show was initially broadcast as a local weekly series beginning in 1981.
John Whitney Sr. (1917–1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. [1] In the 1940s and 1950s, he and his brother James created a series of experimental films made with a custom-built device based on old anti-aircraft analog computers (Kerrison Predictors) connected by servomechanisms to control the motion of lights ...
Dartmouth Time-Sharing System (Dartmouth College's DTSS for GE computers) EXEC 8 ( UNIVAC ) KDF9 Timesharing Director ( English Electric ) – an early, fully hardware secured, fully pre-emptive process switching, multi-programming operating system for KDF9 (originally announced in 1960)
SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer) demonstrated at US NBS in Washington, DC – was the first fully functional stored-program computer in the U.S. May 1950: UK The Pilot ACE computer, with 800 vacuum tubes, and mercury delay lines for its main memory, became operational on 10 May 1950 at the National Physical Laboratory near London.
Digital TV can support more than one program in the same channel bandwidth. [131] It is an innovative service that represents the first significant evolution in television technology since color television in the 1950s. [132] Digital TV's roots have been tied very closely to the availability of inexpensive, high-performance computers.