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The IBM PS/2 note was a first IBM laptop with clamshell design, and the 1992's CL57sx model was IBM's first commercial laptop with color screen; [14] the introduced options and features include the now-common peripherals-oriented PS/2 port as mobile device option, introduced the laptop BIOS [15] and predecessor of laptop docking station (IBM ...
The first "laptop-sized notebook computer" was the Epson HX-20, [12] [13] invented (patented) by Suwa Seikosha's Yukio Yokozawa in July 1980, [14] introduced at the COMDEX computer show in Las Vegas by Japanese company Seiko Epson in 1981, [15] [13] and released in July 1982.
The first digital electronic computer was developed in the period April 1936 - June 1939, in the IBM Patent Department, Endicott, New York by Arthur Halsey Dickinson. [35] [36] [37] In this computer IBM introduced, a calculating device with a keyboard, processor and electronic output (display). The competitor to IBM was the digital electronic ...
Scientific career. Fields. Mathematics, engineering, political economy, computer science. Institutions. Trinity College, Cambridge, Peterhouse, Cambridge. Signature. Charles Babbage KH FRS (/ ˈbæbɪdʒ /; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. [1] A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage ...
The MITS Altair, the first commercially successful microprocessor kit, was featured on the cover of Popular Electronics magazine in January 1975. It was the world's first mass-produced personal computer kit, as well as the first computer to use an Intel 8080 processor. It was a commercial success with 10,000 Altairs being shipped.
The history of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. A personal computer is one intended for interactive individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user's requests are filtered through operating staff, or a time-sharing system in which one large processor is shared by many individuals.
Fields. Computer engineering. Institutions. Osborne Computer Corporation. Adam Osborne (March 6, 1939 – March 18, 2003) was a British author, software publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere. He introduced the Osborne 1, the first commercially successful portable computer.
Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 [1] to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Colossus used thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) to perform Boolean and counting operations. Colossus is thus regarded [2] as the world's first programmable, electronic, digital computer, although it ...