What is less discussed is how Unix became so popular. It’s hard for the younger generation to imagine now, but there used to be a single phone system in the United States and it was owned and operated ...

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1941: Digital Computer German engineer Konrad Ziise completed the Z3, the 1st fully functional digital computer to be controlled by a program; the Z3 was not electronic—it was based on ...

(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.

which most of us associate the SPARC but while most computer architectures are controlled by a single company, SPARC was championed by dozens of players. The history of SPARC is not simply the ...

Women working as "computers" at NACA in 1949 gather air pressure readings. NASA Chou and others are working hard to change things. She has co-founded groups like Project Include that encourage ...

So human civilization invented the abacus, which the Computer History Museum suggests is “the oldest continuously used calculating tool aside from fingers.” Though still in use in today, the abacus ...

It was only when I became a technology writer some years later that I realized that my landlord had invented the computer. In the early 1940s John Presper “Pres” Eckert Jr. was a grad student ...

the main exhibition area is about twice as large as that of Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum. First floor: The Basics of Communication and Calculation The main exhibit begins with ...

You can, however, see one on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. See Computer History Museum. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires ...