The computer
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the computer is made up of a case, called chassis power supply, motherboard, processor, Ram, hard drive, optical drive, video card, key board, mouse, monitor,
Daniel S. Bricklin Occupation: President, Garden Software Inc.
William H. Gates, lll Occupation: Chairman/CEO, Microsoft Corp. Steven P. Jobs Occupation: Chairman/Context Computer Inc.
H. Edward Roberts Occupation: Medical Doctor.
Steve Wozniak Occupation: Founder, Unuson Corp.
The first product model was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator (sound affects), which became a popular piece of equipment. Walt Disney Pictures ordered eight of them for the 1940 movie "Fantasia."
Harvard Mark-1 conceived by a Harvard professor named Howard Aiken designed and built by IBM. The Harvard Mark-1was room sized it had thousands of parts. The Mark-1was used to produce mathematical tables.
Maurice Wilkes made the first practical stored computer at Cambridge University in 1949. His ideas started at Moore School from lectures he attended three years earlier. The computer's Technology was vacuum tubes its memory was 1k, 17 megabits it operates 714 times per second.
The ERA 1101 was built by Engineering Research Associates of Minneapolis and was the first commercially produced computer. Their first customer was the U.S Navy, the ERA 1101 held 1 million bits on the magnetic drum (it was the earliest magnetic storage device). It could store up to 4,000 words on its drums and retrieved email in as little as five thousandths of a second.