Computer Science At Home
The Newton line never performed as well as hoped and was discontinued in 1998. Southwest Technical Products is founded by Daniel Meyer as DEMCO in the 1960s to provide a source for kit versions of projects published in electronics hobbyist magazines. SWTPC introduces many computer kits based on the Motorola 6800, and later, the 6809. Of the dozens of different SWTP kits available, the 6800 proved the most popular. The title of “first commercially available general-purpose computer” probably goes to Britain’s Ferranti Mark I for its sale of its first Mark I computer to Manchester University. Ibm Ships Its Model 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine The 6600 retained the distinction of being the fastest computer in the world until surpassed by its successor, the CDC 7600, in 1968. Part of the speed came from the computer´s design , which used 10 small computers, known as peripheral processing units, to offload the workload from the central processor. At MIT, researchers begin experi...