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