Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Hardware

Almost every day of course, we are wrestling in the world of IT is inseparable from the PC to helplighten the burden easier for us in our daily work . But them know your history of use of computer hardware the first time there?

Here's a quick flashback on the use of computer hardware first in creating:

Mouse
First computer mouse was invented in 1963 by Douglas Engebart in Stanfort Research Institute who is also the inventor of hypertext. First mouse to use two wheels that can slide up to 90 degrees.


Use TrackballTrackball actually existed before the use of the trackball on a mouse that is in 1952 that in initiated by Tom Cranston and Fred Longstaff as part of a defense computer system which is called the Plain used by the Canadian navy.

Portable ComputersPortable computer was first there in 1975 that was created by IBM that IBM 5100 with a weight of 25kg which was in a small suitcase that was also intended as a store of energy, Processors, ROM, 64KB RAM, CRT monitors 5 ", Keyboard, Tape Drive, which sold price range $ 8,975 at that time.

Portable LaptopFirst notebook comes with the name Grid Compass 1100 (grid) which was created in 1979 by Bill Moggride in British industrial designer. With a 320x200 screen, intel 8086, 340 Kb memory Magnetic Bubble, 1200 bps modem. Grid only in use within NASA and the U.S. military.

IBM PCIBM Personal Computer was introduced in 1981 with the name of the IBM 5150. IBM PC comes with Intel's 8088 processor, 256 Kb RAM, floppy disk, CGA monochrome video card, 10Mb HD. that comes with DOS and Microsoft Basic.

Apple ComputerApple's presence in 1976 with a limited production of only 200 units, each unit priced at $ 666.66

RAMRandom Access Memory formerly known as the Magnetic Core Memory or Ferrite-Core Memory, was created in 1951 by An Wang of Harvard University's Computation Lab and Jay Forrester from MIT.

Hard DiskThe first hard drive made by IBM with the name of the IBM Model 350 which is a hard drive that used the IBM 305 RAMAC computer with a memory capacity of 4.4 Mb with 1200 rpm speed data transfers that have 8800 characters per second.

Laser PrinterCreated by Gary Starweather at XEROX in 1969 ang still a prototype of a laser printer. Then the first commercial printer dikelurkan by IBM with the IBM model 3800 in 1976.

Web ServersThe web server is first created by Tim Barners-Lee on NeXT workstation and then using the World Wide Web at CERN with the first page there on August 6, 1991. On this server there is also a written message "This a machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!"


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