Timeline – ICT (60s/70s)
The Cray 6600 is the first supercomputer to achieve respectable results with standard hardware.
AMD was founded on May 1, 1969 under the name “Sanders Association” by Jerry Sanders III and Ed Turney. The seed capital was provided by investors, including Intel founder Robert Noyce.
The Intel 4004 is a 4-bit microprocessor from microchip manufacturer Intel that was released on November 15, 1971. It is considered the first single-chip microprocessor to be mass-produced and sold on the open market. It is usually referred to as the first microprocessor ever, but this is not correct, as…
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In 1972 the companies Atari, SAP and Traf-O-Data were founded. The latter would be meaningless had it not been renamed to Microsoft by Bill Gates and Paul Allen three years later.
Published by Atari in 1972, Pong became the first globally popular video game and first became popular on machines in arcades in the 1970s. It is considered the forefather of video games, although video games had already been developed before.
The Motorola 6800 (MC6800), not to be confused with the much better known Motorola 68000, is an 8-bit processor from 1974 with 78 instructions and a 1 or 2 MHz clock rate. It has a 16-bit wide address bus and can therefore address up to 64 KB of memory. It…
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The Altair 8800 was an early home computer, then called a “microcomputer” to differentiate it from the refrigerator-sized “minicomputers”. With its toggle switches for input and LEDs for output (machine console), this device did not yet have the ease of use of later personal computers, but it was already called…
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The Apple I went on sale, followed a year later by the Apple II, which was produced until 1993. The Apple I was a personal computer (PC) developed by Steve Wozniak from the American company Apple. It was the first device in the world to be affordable for private households…
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The Zilog Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor developed by Zilog Inc. company. The Z80 is still available today in CMOS technology. It was created shortly after Federico Faggin left Intel and founded his own company Zilog. At Intel he had worked on the 8080 microprocessor. In March 1976 the Z80…
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The 8086, introduced in 1978, is still the compatibility basis for all Macs and PCs today. A little later, Motorola’s 680×0 appeared, also one of the most successful chips of all time. The Intel 8086 is a 16-bit microprocessor from Intel. Developed in 1978, it became the forefather of the…
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