| Online Technology SourceComputers:First Computer | | | | the programs run by the computer. Finally computer |
| Invented: Most people when they think of first | | | | research brought us smaller, more useful computers, |
| computer invented they think Bill Gates. This, however, | | | | and eventually the kinds of computers that we have |
| is not true, for the computer was invented long before | | | | today.First Laptops Invented:Although it is a little hard to |
| Bill Gates was around. Bill Gates only revolutionized the | | | | determine what the first portable or laptop computer |
| computer, buy creating a more compact and useful | | | | was, and when it was invented, we can however say |
| form of the computer and making it available to | | | | that there is more than one claim to laptop fame. |
| everyone with a job.There are many people out there | | | | There was even signs of laptops dating back as early |
| who would say that the first "computer" was the | | | | as 1979. Designed by a Briton, William Moggridge, for |
| abacus, invented in Asia about 5000 years ago. I | | | | use by NASA in early 1980's. IT was one fifth the |
| however, wouldn't.The first of the "modern" computers | | | | weight of any model equivalent in performance and |
| was invented during World War II, in 1941 by a German | | | | was a 340K byte bubble memory lap-top computer |
| engineer named Konrad Zuse. Its name was the Z3 | | | | with die-cast magnesium case and folding |
| and it was used to help design German airplanes and | | | | electroluminescent graphics display screen.Since then |
| missile's. Then in 1943, the Allied forces developed a | | | | notebook PC's released in 1981 lay clam to being the |
| computer called Colossus. It helped decode German | | | | first. It was the Epson HX-20, a battery powered |
| messages.The Mark I, designed by Howard H. Aiken, | | | | portable computer, with a 20-character by 4 line LCD |
| an engineer working with Harvard and IBM. The Mark I | | | | display and a built-in printer that started the new |
| was positively huge, taking up half of a football field. It | | | | widespread desire for these laptop computers.In |
| was useful though and it helped to create ballistic | | | | January of 1982, Microsoft's Kazuhiko Nishi and Bill |
| charts for the US Navy during the war.Shortly after | | | | Gates begin discussions on designing a portable |
| this, came the Electronic Numerical Integrator and | | | | computer, based on using a new liquid crystal display |
| Computer (ENIAC), developed by John Presper Eckert | | | | or LCD screen. LCD technology in 1982? Yeah that's |
| and John W. Mauchly, working with the government | | | | right! Believe it or not we had the technology to make |
| and the University of Pennsylvania. ENIAC was about | | | | the LCD tvs and monitors that you've seen only |
| 1000 times faster than The Mark I but no smarter.The | | | | recently over 22 years ago. But that's another story in |
| Use of transistors, ment computers that could store | | | | itself.First PDAs Invented:First of all PDA stands for |
| memory and even run programs. Soon after computer | | | | personal digital assistants in case you didn't already |
| languages were invented so that people could change | | | | know. In 1993, Apple Computer Inc. |