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| Computers: | | | | Watch movies Using PocketTV |
| First Computer Invented: | | | | Play a Game |
| Most people when they think of first computer | | | | Use Your Pocket PC as a backup device |
| invented they think Bill Gates. This, however, is | | | | Update Office Documents |
| not true, for the computer was invented long | | | | Download and read E-books |
| before Bill Gates was around. Bill Gates only | | | | Listen to Audio Books |
| revolutionized the computer, buy creating a more | | | | Connect to Windows servers using Terminal |
| compact and useful form of the computer and | | | | Services |
| making it available to everyone with a job. | | | | Use Messenger Tools |
| There are many people out there who would say | | | | Change the theme of your Pocket PC |
| that the first "computer" was the abacus, | | | | Project the Pocket PC screen onto your desktop |
| invented in Asia about 5000 years ago. I | | | | Study |
| however, wouldn't. | | | | Do Your Taxes |
| The first of the "modern" computers was | | | | Some PDA Software: |
| invented during World War II, in 1941 by a | | | | Medical/Drug Resources PDA Software |
| German engineer named Konrad Zuse. Its name | | | | Medical Calculators PDA Software |
| was the Z3 and it was used to help design | | | | Learning Tools PDA Software |
| German airplanes and missile's. Then in 1943, the | | | | Patient Tracking PDA Software |
| Allied forces developed a computer called | | | | Document Readers PDA Software |
| Colossus. It helped decode German messages. | | | | Medical Equipment PDA Software |
| The Mark I, designed by Howard H. Aiken, an | | | | Databases PDA Software |
| engineer working with Harvard and IBM. The Mark | | | | Printing PDA Software |
| I was positively huge, taking up half of a football | | | | News and Information PDA Services |
| field. It was useful though and it helped to create | | | | Street Finders and Maps PDA Software |
| ballistic charts for the US Navy during the war. | | | | Bible Study PDA Software |
| Shortly after this, came the Electronic Numerical | | | | Voice Command PDA Software |
| Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), developed by | | | | Language Translator PDA Software |
| John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly, | | | | Tax PDA Software |
| working with the government and the University | | | | Home Entertainment Technology: |
| of Pennsylvania. ENIAC was about 1000 times | | | | Home Entertainment really is just a collaboration |
| faster than The Mark I but no smarter. | | | | of all our entertainment technologies into a |
| The Use of transistors, ment computers that | | | | package that surely will not disappoint us. Home |
| could store memory and even run programs. | | | | entertainment systems have many different |
| Soon after computer languages were invented so | | | | parts that together give us the feeling of being at |
| that people could change the programs run by the | | | | the movies. |
| computer. Finally computer research brought us | | | | Plasma TV |
| smaller, more useful computers, and eventually | | | | LCD Panel TV |
| the kinds of computers that we have today. | | | | DLP Rear Projection TV |
| First Laptops Invented: | | | | Video Projectors |
| Although it is a little hard to determine what the | | | | Surround Sound Audio Systems |
| first portable or laptop computer was, and when | | | | Speakers |
| it was invented, we can however say that there | | | | DVD / CD / VCR Players |
| is more than one claim to laptop fame. There was | | | | Accessories and Furniture |
| even signs of laptops dating back as early as | | | | Satellite Television |
| 1979. Designed by a Briton, William Moggridge, for | | | | Media Center HTPCs |
| use by NASA in early 1980's. IT was one fifth the | | | | First Television Invented: |
| weight of any model equivalent in performance | | | | The first signs of a tele date back to the 1862 |
| and was a 340K byte bubble memory lap-top | | | | when Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents his |
| computer with die-cast magnesium case and | | | | "pantelegraph" and becomes the first person to |
| folding electroluminescent graphics display screen. | | | | transmit a still image over wires. In 1900, at the |
| Since then notebook PC's released in 1981 lay | | | | World's Fair in Paris, the 1st International Congress |
| clam to being the first. It was the Epson HX-20, a | | | | of Electricity was held, where Russian, Constantin |
| battery powered portable computer, with a | | | | Perskyi made the first known use of the word |
| 20-character by 4 line LCD display and a built-in | | | | "television." In 1930 Charles Jenkins broadcasts the |
| printer that started the new widespread desire | | | | first TV commercial. The BBC begins regular TV |
| for these laptop computers. | | | | transmissions. |
| In January of 1982, Microsoft's Kazuhiko Nishi and | | | | Then throughout the years the inventions came |
| Bill Gates begin discussions on designing a portable | | | | one after another. In 1950 the FCC approves the |
| computer, based on using a new liquid crystal | | | | first color television standard which is replaced by |
| display or LCD screen. LCD technology in 1982? | | | | a second in 1953. Vladimir Zworykin developed a |
| Yeah that's right! Believe it or not we had the | | | | better camera tube - the Vidicon. In 1956 Robert |
| technology to make the LCD tvs and monitors | | | | Adler invents the first practical remote control. In |
| that you've seen only recently over 22 years ago. | | | | 1973 giant screen projection TVs are first |
| But that's another story in itself. | | | | marketed. Followed by Sonys release of the first |
| First PDAs Invented: | | | | home video cassette recorder in 1976.By time |
| First of all PDA stands for personal digital | | | | 1996 came around there was a billion TV sets |
| assistants in case you didn't already know. In | | | | world-wide. |
| 1993, Apple Computer Inc. released the very first | | | | First DVD/Player Invented: |
| PDA(personal digital assistants) "The | | | | We can only assume the transition over from cd's |
| Newton®". For the next three years, PDA | | | | and cd players over to dvds and dvd players |
| sales dwindled, and were almost off the charts. | | | | wasn't that hard. The technology was already |
| Then, in March 1996, Palm(TM), Inc. delivered the | | | | there for them. So the dvd player was surely |
| industry's first truly compelling handheld computer, | | | | invented before or right after the dvd was |
| the PalmPilot. Today there are to many PDA | | | | invented. DVDs are the work of many companies |
| companies and products to even bother | | | | and many people. The DVD evolved from CD and |
| mentioning. | | | | related technologies. Companies such as Sony, |
| Some Things You Can Do On A PDA: | | | | Philips, Toshiba, Matsushita, Time Warner, and |
| Get a Wireless Connection | | | | others announced the new "high density" dvd in |
| Surf the Web | | | | September of 1995. |