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Inventing the Future
- Univac
- - No competition
- - Why did they fail?
- - Could they sell to DOD?
- Remington Rand
- - How did Univac became famous?
- - Can a computer know something humans don't?
- What did IBM do when Univacs were sold?
- After deciding to get into the market, why did IBM get ahead?
- - better product?
- - better price?
- - better sales and service?
- - fit into existing reality
- - facts of the time: computers were sold with 2K memory positions!
Vacuum Tubes 1st generation
- - Big
- - Heat
- - Power
- - Burn easily
- - computer memory: 2 K
Transistors 2nd generation
- - smaller
- - less heat
- - less energy
- - hardly burn
- - computer memory: 16k
Integrated Circuits 3rd Generation
- - required new design techniques
- - more expensive
- - cheap if mass produced
- - much smaller
- - way less energy
- - computer memory 16k - 32K - 64K - 256K - 512 K (1970's)
How did IC's become popular?
Why was a computer needed on board?
How did the Russians do?
Until the 1980's computers were still expensive and difficult to use