I made this selection to create a video lecture that we will show at ChipEXPO in Skolkovo on September 15-17 . For each photo, I will denote with one phrase what this computer is famous for. Some phrases are oversimplifications. Do not swear, gentlemen, it is necessary for the video.
ENIAC is one of the first, where von Neumann separated programming from hardware design:
IBM 7030 Stretch, the first commercial computer with a pipeline:
IBM / 360 - pioneer of the principle of "one architecture, many microarchitectures":
CDC 6600 - a supercomputer that invented out-of-order execution of instructions:
Cray-1 supercomputer with operations on vector registers (pairwise addition or multiplication elements of arrays of numbers):
PDP-11 - a minicomputer with the ideology of CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer), about the beauty of the command system of which programmers of the 1970s still sigh:
VAX-11 - the pinnacle of CISC ideology:
In the robot-dog to the left of Irina - MIPS processor, which embodies the ideology of RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer):
Silicon Graphics workstation with MIPS processor, used in Hollywood to create a type of "Jurassic Park" films:
These photos are not for video:
the Osborne Computer - the company lost when announced a new version haypovogo peresnosnogo computer and users stopped buying old:
Any old the PC, including homemade Soviet ones:
Early personal computers, including Apple II:
Altair 8800 - a homemade computer for which Bill Gates and Paul Allan made BASIC:
First Apple:
Early game consoles:
Appollo workstation with Unix:
Antediluvian personal
computers : HP computer for observatories:
The first computer ever ordered by Newman-Marcus to sell it to women to store kitchen recipes. On punched tape:
A couple more minicomputers. It seems HP is the prototype of the Soviet SM-1 and CM-2 (not to be confused with the CM-3 and CM-4, which were copied from the PDP-11):
PDP-8. Ridiculous instruction set, but the low cost of the computer became popular for places like laboratories:
CDC 1604. Early computer of the great architect Seymour Kray when he was working at CDC:
Illiac IV is an experimental supercomputer that students wanted to smash in protest against the war in Vietnam:
One of the Cray computers after Cray-1 (Cray X-MP? Cray-2?):
Some early mainframe (Univac?):
The first transistor computer in a ballistic missile?
On the wall is a Soviet on-board computer from the Mir station:
For wild money, they created a network of computers to track Russian bombers. Instead of bombers, the Russians began to make rockets and the network turned out to be unclaimed:
Whirlwind - memory on magnetic cores and other innovations: