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We live in a world that is based on all kind (a lot of)of technologies and we cant imagine a daily routine

without personal computer, smartphone smartwatch or smartband. But lets take a look to the begining of
hierarchy of computers.

Boolean logic for future computers. Called the Model K Adder because he built it
1937 on his Kitchen table, this simple demonstration circuit provides proof of concept for
applying Boolean logic to the design of computers, resulting in construction of the
relay-based Model I Complex Calculator in 1939.

The complex number calculator(CNC). In 1940, George Stibitz demonstrated the


1940 CNC at an American Mathematical Society conference held at Dartmouth College.
Stibitz stunned the group by performing calculations remotely on the CNC (located in
New York City) using a Teletype terminal connected via to New York over special
telephone lines. This is likely the first example of remote access computing.

The first Bombe. Built as an electromechanical mechanical means of


1941 decrypting Nazi ENIGMA-based military communications during World
War II, the British Bombe is conceived of by computer pioneer Alan
Turing and Harold Keen of the British Tabulating Machine Company.
Hundreds of bombes were built, their purpose to ascertain the daily rotor
start positions of Enigma cipher machines, which in turn allowed the
Allies to decrypt German messages.

Harvard Mark. Conceived by Harvard physics professor Howard Aiken, and


1944 designed and built by IBM, the Harvard Mark 1 is a room-sized, relay-based
calculator. The machine had a fifty-foot long camshaft running the length of
machine that synchronized the machines thousands of component parts and used
3,500 relays. The Mark 1 produced mathematical tables but was soon superseded
by electronic stored-program computers.

First computer program to run on a computer. University of Manchester


1948 researchers Frederic Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Toothill develop the
Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), better known as the Manchester
"Baby." The Baby was built to test a new memory technology developed by
Williams and Kilburn -- soon known as the Williams Tube which was the first
electronic random access memory for computers. The first program, consisting
of seventeen instructions and written by Kilburn, ran on June 21st, 1948. This
was the first program to ever run on an electronic stored-program computer.

NPL Pilot ACE completed. Based on ideas from Alan Turing, Britains Pilot
1950 ACE computer is constructed at the National Physical Laboratory. "We are
trying to build a machine to do all kinds of different things simply by
programming rather than by the addition of extra apparatus," Turing said at a
symposium on large-scale digital calculating machinery in 1947 in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. The design packed 800 vacuum tubes into a
relatively compact 12 square feet.
IAS computer operational. The Institute of Advanced Study (IAS)
1950 computer is a multi-year research project conducted under the overall
supervision of world-famous mathematician John von Neumann. The notion
of storing both data and instructions in memory became known as the stored
program concept to distinguish it from earlier methods of instructing a
computer. The IAS computer was designed for scientific calculations and it
performed essential work for the US atomic weapons program.

IBM ships its Model 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine. Also known
1953 inside IBM as the Defense Calculator," the 701 rented for $15,000 a month.
Programmer Arthur Samuels used the 701 to write the first computer program
designed to play checkers. The 701 introduction also marked the beginning of
IBMs entry into the large-scale computer market, a market it came to dominate
in later decades.

IBM 650 magnetic drum calculator introduced. IBM establishes the 650 as its
1954 first mass-produced computer, with the company selling 450 in just one year.
Spinning at 12,500 rpm, the 650s magnetic data-storage drum allowed much
faster access to stored information than other drum-based machines. The Model
650 was also highly popular in universities, where a generation of students first
learned programming.

MIT researchers build the TX-0.The TX-0 (Transistor eXperimental - 0) is


1956 the first general-purpose programmable computer built with transistors. For easy
replacement, designers placed each transistor circuit inside a "bottle," similar to a
vacuum tube. Constructed at MITs Lincoln Laboratory, the TX-0 moved to the
MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, where it hosted some early imaginative
tests of programming, including writing a Western movie shown on television, 3-
D tic-tac-toe, and a maze in which a mouse found martinis and became increasingly inebriated.

IBM Introduces 1400 series. The 1401 mainframe, the first in the series, replaces
1961 earlier vacuum tube technology with smaller, more reliable transistors. Demand
called for more than 12,000 of the 1401 computers, and the machines success made
a strong case for using general-purpose computers rather than specialized systems.
By the mid-1960s, nearly half of all computers in the world were IBM 1401s.

CDC 6000 supercomputer. The Control Data Corporation (CDC) 6600


1964 performs up to 3 million instructions per second three times faster than that
of its closest competitor, the IBM 7030 supercomputer. The 6600 retained the
distinction of being the fastest computer in the world until surpassed by its
successor, the CDC 7600, in 1968. Part of the speed came from the
computers design, which used 10 small computers, known as peripheral
processing units, to offload the workload from the central processor.
Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) makes its debut. Designed by scientists
1968 and engineers at MITs Instrumentation Laboratory, the Apollo Guidance
Computer (AGC) is the culmination of years of work to reduce the size of the
Apollo spacecraft computer from the size of seven refrigerators side-by-side to a
compact unit weighing only 70 lbs. and taking up a volume of less than 1 cubic
foot. The AGCs first flight was on Apollo 7. A year later, it steered Apollo 11 to
the lunar surface. Astronauts communicated with the computer by punching two-digit codes into the
display and keyboard unit (DSKY). The AGC was one of the earliest uses of integrated circuits, and used
core memory, as well as read-only magnetic rope memory. The astronauts were responsible for entering
more than 10,000 commands into the AGC for each trip between Earth and the Moon.

Micral. Based on the Intel 8008 microprocessor, the Micral is one of the
1973 earliest commercial, non-kit personal computers. Designer Thi Truong
developed the computer while Philippe Kahn wrote the software. Truong,
founder and president of the French company R2E, created the Micral as a
replacement for minicomputers in situations that did not require high
performance, such as process control and highway toll collection.

Tandy Radio Shack introduces its TRS-80. Performing far better than the
1977 company projections of 3,000 units for the first year, in the first month after
its release Tandy Radio Shacks first desktop computer the TRS-80
sells 10,000 units. The TRS-80 was priced at $599.95, included a Z80
microprocessor, video display, 4 KB of memory, a built-in BASIC
programming language interpreter, cassette storage, and easy-to-understand
manuals that assumed no prior knowledge on the part of the user. The TRS-
80 proved popular with schools, as well as for home use. The TRS-80 line of computers later included
color, portable, and handheld versions before being discontinued in the early 1990s.

IBM's brand recognition, along with a massive marketing campaign,


1981 ignites the fast growth of the personal computer market with the
announcement of its own personal computer (PC). The first IBM PC,
formally known as the IBM Model 5150, was based on a 4.77 MHz
Intel 8088 microprocessor and used Microsofts MS-DOS operating
system. The IBM PC revolutionized business computing by becoming
the first PC to gain widespread adoption by industry.

Macintosh. Macintosh was the first successful mouse-driven


1984 computer with a graphical user interface and was based on the
Motorola 68000 microprocessor. Its price was $2,500.
Applications that came as part of the package included MacPaint,
which made use of the mouse, and MacWrite, which demonstrated
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) word processing.
Apple introduces the Macintosh with a television commercial
during the 1984 Super Bowl, which plays on the theme of
totalitarianism in George Orwells book 1984. The ad featured the destruction of Big Brother a veiled
reference to IBM -- through the power of personal computing found in a Macintosh.
Deskpro 386 system. Compaq beats IBM to the market when it announces
1986 the Deskpro 386, the first computer on the market to use Intels new 80386
chip, a 32-bit microprocessor with 275,000 transistors on each chip. At 4
million operations per second and 4 kilobytes of memory, the 80386 gave PCs
as much speed and power as older mainframes and minicomputers. The 386
chip brought with it the introduction of a 32-bit architecture, a significant
improvement over the 16-bit architecture of previous microprocessors. The
new chip made graphical operating environments for IBM PC and PC-compatible computers practical.
The architecture that allowed Windows and IBM OS/2 has remained in subsequent chips.

Macintosh Portable. Apple had initially included a handle in their


1989 Macintosh computers to encourage users to take their Macs on the go,
though not until five years after the initial introduction does Apple
introduce a true portable computer. The Macintosh Portable was
heavy, weighing sixteen pounds, and expensive (US$6,500). Sales
were weaker than projected, despite being widely praised by the press
for its active matrix display, removable trackball, and high
performance. The line was discontinued less than two years later

The first Newton of Apple. Apple enters the handheld computer market with the Newton.
1993 Dubbed a Personal Data Assistant by Apple President John Scully in 1992, the Newton
featured many of the features that would define handheld computers in the following
decades. The handwriting recognition software was much maligned for inaccuracy. The
Newton line never performed as well as hoped and was discontinued in 1998.

IBM releases the ThinkPad. Officially known as the Track Write, the
1995 automatically expanding full-sized keyboard used by the ThinkPad 701 is
designed by inventor John Karidis. The keyboard was comprised of three
roughly triangular interlocking pieces, which formed a full-sized keyboard
when the laptop was opened -- resulting in a keyboard significantly wider
than the case. This keyboard design was dubbed the Butterfly. The need
for such a design was lessened as laptop screens grew wider.
The iMac, a range of all-in-one Macintosh desktop computers, is
2000 launched. Apple makes a splash with its Bondi Blue iMac, which
sells for about $1,300. Customers got a machine with a 233-MHz G3
processor, 4GB hard drive, 32MB of RAM, a CD-ROM drive, and a
15" monitor. The machine was noted for its ease-of-use and included
a 'manual' that contained only a few pictures and less than 20 words.

PowerMac G5 is released. With a distinctive anodized aluminum case, and hailed


2003 as the first true 64-bit personal computer, the Apple G5 is the most powerful
k Macintosh ever released to that point. While larger than the previous G4 towers,
the G5 had comparatively limited space for expansion. Virginia Tech used more
than a thousand PowerMac G5s to create the System X cluster supercomputer,
rated #3 in November of that year on the worlds TOP500 fastest computers.

Arduino. Harkening back to the hobbyist era of personal computing in the


2005 1970s. Each credit card-sized Arduino board consisted of an inexpensive
k microcontroller and signal connectors which made Arduinos ideal for use in
any application connecting to or monitoring the outside world. The Arduino
used a Java-based integrated development environment and users could
access a library of programs, called Wiring, that allowed for simplified
programming. Arduino soon became the main computer platform of the worldwide Maker movement.

The first smartphone. Apple launches the iPhone - a combination of web browser, music
2007 player and cell phone - which could download new functionality in the form of "apps"
k (applications) from the online Apple store. The touchscreen enabled smartphone also had
built-in GPS navigation, high-definition camera, texting, calendar, voice dictation, and
weather reports.

China's Tianhe supercomputers. With a peak speed of over a


2010 petaflop (one thousand trillion calculations per second), the Tianhe 1
k (translation: Milky Way 1) is developed by the Chinese National
University of Defense Technology using Intel Xeon processors
combined with AMD graphic processing units (GPUs). The
machines were used by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to run
massive solar energy simulations, as well as some of the most complex molecular studies ever undertaken
Raspberry Pi. A credit-card-size single board computer, is released as
2012 a tool to promote science education, conceived in the UK by the
k Raspberry Pi Foundation, this credit card-sized computer features ease
of use and simplicity making it highly popular with students and
hobbyists. In October 2013, the one millionth Raspberry Pi was
shipped. Only one month later, another one million Raspberry Pis were
delivered. The Pi weighed only 45 grams and initially sold for only $25-$35 U.S. Dollars.

Apple watch. Building a computer into the watch form factor has been
2015 attempted many times but the release of the Apple Watch leads to a new
k level of excitement. Incorporating a version of Apple's iOS operating
system, as well as sensors for environmental and health monitoring, the
Apple Watch was designed to be incorporated into the Apple
environment with compatibility with iPhones and Mac Books. Almost a
million units were ordered on the day of release. The Watch was received with great enthusiasm, but
critics took issue with the somewhat limited battery life and high price.

The most powerful laptop at the moment. Everything about


2017 the ROG G701VI is designed with speed in mind, starting with
k the overclockable Intel Core i7-6820K processor and top-end
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card. ROG G701 is
equipped with a super-fast 120Hz panel that supports NVIDIA
G-SYNC technology for fast-paced games. For gamers
looking to play competitively at high frame rates, the G701VI is
built for you. It contain the latest-generation NVIDIA GTX 1080 8GB Graphics Card, Intel Core i7-
6820HK 2.7 GHz Processor, 64GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB SSD (512GB x2 RAID0), FHD 1920x1080 G-
SYNC Display , 178 Viewing angles and of course the awesome gaming, stylish, metallic design.

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