This section takes a look at how ICT and
Technology has advanced throughout history. On the timeline you will see when major ICT and technology breakthroughs were made including the year Microsoft and Apple first began developing what would become multi-billion dollar businesses.
You will see when computing and gaming first appeared in the home and how the technologies behind this progressed.
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1939
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– Hewlett Packard founded
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Hewlett-Packard is founded. David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage.
Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which rapidly becomes a popular piece of test equipment for engineers.
Walt Disney ordered eight of the 200B model to use as sound effects generators for the 1940 movie “Fantasia”.
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Project Whirlwind begins. During World War II, the U.S. Navy approached the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) about building a flight simulator to train bomber crews.
The team first built a large analog Computer, but found it inaccurate and inflexible. After designers saw a demonstration of the ENIAC computer, they decided on building a digital computer.
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1944
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– Harvard Mark-1 completed
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Conceived by Harvard professor Howard Aiken, and designed and built by IBM, theHarvard Mark-1 was a room-sized, relay-based calculator.
The machine had a fifty-foot long camshaft that synchronized the machine’s thousands of component parts.
The Mark-1 was used to produce mathematical tables but was soon superseded by stored program computers.
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John von Neumann wrote “First Draft of a report on the EDVAC” in which he outlined the architecture of a stored-program computer.
Electronic storage of programming information and data eliminated the need for the more clumsy methods of programming, such as punched paper tape — a concept that has characterized mainstream computer development since 1945.
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IBM´s Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator computed scientific data in public display near the company´s Manhattan headquarters.
Before its decommissioning in 1952, the SSEC produced the moon-position tables used for plotting the course of the 1969 Apollo flight to the moon.
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