Time Line of Computers
I Compute, There Forth I Think
What was the first computer and who built it?
It turns out that this is more a question of definition than a question of fact. The computer, as we now understand the word, was very much an evolutionary development rather than a simple invention. This article traces the sequence of the most important steps in that development, and in the earlier development of digital calculators without programmability. It may …
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…hard drive, AmigaDOS v2.0, and AmigaVision authoring system. Prices start at $4100 with a monitor.
1991
January
Commodore releases the CDTV (Commodore Dynamic Total Vision) package. It features a CD-ROM player integrated with a 7.16 MHz 68000-based Amiga 500. List price is $1000.
March
Advanced Micro Designs introduces the Am386DX, its first clone chips of Intel's i386DX, at speeds of 20- to 40 MHz.
April
Intel introduces the 20 MHz i486SX microprocessor. The i486SX is like the 486D
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