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Computer simulation is a critical technology that play a major role in many areas in scientific and engineering. With the declining in defense budgets in the early 1990s, the U.S. high-performance computer companies has shifted their focus away from scientific computing market toward the business high-performance computer market where the greatest demand is for cost-effective of midrange performance computers. In this market, the performance improvement is emphasized on the price-to-performance ratio rather than on the high performance as in scientific applications.

The Internet’s Past The Internet is a child of the 1960s, with its roots dating back to 1969 when the first network of computers, ARPANET, communicated with one another. It took a full decade before the Internet Protocol was developed. In 1984, the domain name system was created, bringing with it the familiar suffixes of .com and .org. Still primarily academic, the Internet wasn’t widely used until the 1990s when two significant developments arrived. In 1991, the World Wide Web was ushered in. Hyperlinks made navigation much easier than in the past. And in 1993, the first Web browser, Mosaic, arrived, making for a graphical user experience. By the mid-1990s, an estimated 45 million users were using the Internet. By 2000, that number exploded to over 400 million. The Internet was officially here to stay.

Remember distributed processing back in the late 1970s? Intelligence at the workstation was primitive back then. All of the benefits of distributed processing were based on multiple host computers, each with their own set of input/output devices. One benefit of distributed processing in the '70s was lower processing costs, based on the fact that a number of networked minicomputers could be acquired and maintained at a lower cost than running a centralised mainframe. Another benefit was reduced downtime. If one host went down, then processing could be distributed among other host computers in the network.

In 1872, Remington produced the first mechanical typewriter, patented by C. Latham Sholes. Soon typists were going so fast that they were able to jam the keys which flew up to hit the typewriter ribbon. In the late 1870's: the "improved" Qwerty layout was designed to slow down typing, so those pesky keys would not jam anymore. Here is the speed trap we are stuck with today, 130 years later.

Commodore Business Machines, Ltd. was founded in 1954 by an Auschwitz survivor named Jack Tramiel as a typewriter repair shop. After some time in the typewriter, adding machine, and hand-held calculator markets, Commodore became first company to announce that it was producing a consumer-friendly home computer (the PET 2001). Before they filed bankruptcy in 1994, Commodore had also managed to produce the worlds first multi-media computer (the Amiga) , and what is still today the best selling computer model of all time (the Commodore 64). Although this once dominant company is no more, they still yet live in the hearts of those who loved and appreciated this early pioneer in the realm of personal computers.

Welcome in the pocket computer museum, you will find hereafter a lot of pockets machines dated 80's, all programmable in BASIC language.

The large systems gallery consists of computers originally designed as servers, industrial controllers, large word-processing systems, batch processors, or are just generally large.

THIS SECTION PROVIDES AN HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY OF COMPUTING MACHINES USING ARTIFACTS FROM THE COLLECTION - THE SECTION IS NOT EXCLUSIVE TO MAINFRAMES BUT RATHER SPANS THE HISTORY OF LARGER COMPUTATIONAL DEVICES

Manufacturer Diverse - A - Abacus Computer ABC ABS Computer Access Matrix Acer Acorn ACS Actebis Actrix ACVS Adcomp ADD-X Systems Addressograph-Farrington adps Advanced Electronies Design Advanced Logic Research (ALR) Advanced Micro Computers AEG / AEG-Telefunken AES Agenda Ai Electronics AIM Aircomp Akia Akkord Alliant Alpha Micro Alpha Microsystems Alphadelta Alphasmart Alphatext Alsp Altec Electronic GmbH Altos AMD Amdahl Ampere

Introduction: What's a "Great CPU"? This list is not intended to be an exhaustive compilation of microprocessors, but rather a description of designs that are either unique (such as the RCA 1802, Acorn ARM, or INMOS Transputer), or representative designs typical of the period (such as the 6502 or 8080, 68000, and R2000). Not necessarily the first of their kind, or the best. A microprocessor generally means a CPU on a single silicon chip, but exceptions have been made (and are documented) when the CPU includes particularly interesting design ideas, and is generally the result of the microprocessor design philosophy. However, towards the more modern designs, design from other fields overlap, and this criterion becomes rather fuzzy. In addition, parts that used to be separate (FPU, MMU) are now usually considered part of the CPU design.