Computers had been incredibly expensive because they required so much hand assembly, such as the wiring seen in this CDC 7600:
Hasitha Helappriya
May 28, 2010
Typical wiring in an early mainframe computer [photo courtesy The Computer Museum]
Friday, May 28, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
To be bested by a home computer of 1976 such as this Apple I which sold for only $600:
Hasitha Helappriya
May 25, 2010
The Apple 1 which was sold as a do-it-yourself kit (without the lovely case seen here)
Saturday, May 22, 2010
The first computer bug
Hasitha Helappriya
May 22, 2010
In 1953 Grace Hopper invented the first high-level language, "Flow-matic". This language eventually became COBOL which was the lan...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Hasitha Helappriya
May 19, 2010
One of the primary programmers for the Mark I was a woman, Grace Hopper. Hopper found the first computer "bug": a dead moth that h...
