Computer History — Personal Computers, ... • 1mo T he first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State ...
It was the first computer to have a microprogrammed control unit and a bit slice hardware architecture. A unit can be seen at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. Here, an IBM storage ...
Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data in 1971 to sell their computer traffic-analysis systems. 1972: Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel ...
Doug Engelbart demonstrates in 1968 a word processor, an early hypertext system and a collaborative application: three now common computer applications. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce found Intel ...
(The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA) The home of the largest collection of computer artifacts in the world, which includes thousands of hardware components, images, films and videos.