In Pictures: Iconic Machines From Computing History
In Pictures: Iconic Machines From Computing History
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1642: Pascaline
Vive la France! The ancestor of the computer is the adding machine, and one of the first and most influential was created by Blaise Pascal between 1642 and 1645. The machine, now known simply as “Pascaline,” had a number of notched wheels. Each notch represented a digit (0-9), and each wheel represented a unit (tens, hundreds, thousands, and so on). Even better, by using wheels with 12 notches instead of 10, the Pascaline was able to count in base 12, which was commonly used in the 17th century. Pascal built an estimated twenty machines, some of which can still be seen in museums today.
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The Amiga computer was in development before the Mac was released to the public. It's still amazing that the apple II sold as well as it did considering the C=64 was so much cheaper yet better.
a) Epson HX-20, the first actual notebook with battery
b) ZX-Spectrum one of the most popular personal computers
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Tom's please get over it.
I'm not a fan of the slideshow but it could be worse so I'm okay with it
Although I do agree with you, partially, the slideshow type of article makes separating each item better than a proper article would.
Also, 35/35 isnt meant to be a place for another computer in the article. Tom's always leaves a blank page at the end, in order to link you to other slideshow articles.
MY IBM PC had 256Kb ram!
I also remember for the first time opening my PC tower and cleaning dust off and finding an extra floppy power cable...thinking that I must have unplug it from somewhere...so I end up plugin it into a motherboard jumpers lol That was my 386DX...I needed an update anyway
perhaps they should bring it back
That turbo button has become Intel's Turbo Boost technology, so it would be rather pointless.