Monday, February 23, 2015

INVENTORS OF COMPUTER HARDWARE:

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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