Tuesday 16 July 2013

SOME INVENTORS OF COMPUTER HARDWARE

(1) Key board — Herman Hollerith, first keypunch device in 1930’s


(2) Transistor — John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley (1947 – 1948)


(3) RAM — An Wang and Jay Forrester (1951)


(4) Trackball — Tom Cranston and Fred Longstaff (1952)


(5) Hard Disk — IBM , The IBM Model 350 Disk File (1956 )


(6) Integrated Circuit— Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce (1958)


(7) Computer Mouse — Douglas Engelbart (1964)


(8) Laser printer— Gary Stark weather at XEROX in 1969.


(9) Floppy Disk— Alan Shugart & IBM( 1970)


(10) Microprocessor — Faggin, Hoff & Mazor – Intel 4004



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