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2. History of computing hardware (1960s–present) - Wikipedia

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   The planar process was developed by Noyce's colleague Jean Hoerni in early 1959, based on the silicon surface passivation and thermal oxidation processes developed by Mohamed M. Atalla at Bell Labs in the late 1950s. [ 4][ 5][ 6] Computers using IC chips began to appear in the early 1960s.

3. Digital Equipment Corporation - Wikipedia

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   over 140,000 (1987) Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC / dɛk / ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president until he was forced to resign in 1992, after the company had gone into ...

4. List of computer system manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   Sold computer division to AST Research; former parent company of Radio Shack: Tangerine Computer Systems — United Kingdom: 1979: 1987: Bankruptcy: Télémécanique — France: 1968: 1976: Computer division merged with CII's minicomputer division to become Société européenne de mini-informatique et systèmes (SEMS) Tava Corporation ...

5. History of computing hardware - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. The history of computing hardware covers the developments from early simple devices to aid calculation to modern day computers . The first aids to computation were purely mechanical devices which required the operator to set up the initial values of an elementary arithmetic operation, then manipulate the device to obtain the result.

6. History of personal computers - Wikipedia

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   The history of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. A personal computer is one intended for interactive individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user's requests are filtered through operating staff, or a time-sharing system in which one large processor is shared by many individuals.

7. List of computer hardware manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   Arm Ltd. (sells designs only) Amazon (AWS Graviton is ARM-based); Apple Inc. (ARM-based CPUs) Broadcom Inc. (ARM-based, e.g. for Raspberry Pi) Fujitsu (its ARM-based CPU used in top supercomputer, still also sells its SPARC-based servers)