Computer Devices and Their Inventors: Computer Knowledge section holds its importance and is considered as the easiest section for candidates who put little efforts on this section from the first day of their preparation.
Device Name | Inventor |
Compact Disk or CD | James Russell in 1965 |
Computer Mouse | Douglas Engelbart in 1964 |
First laptop | Grid Compass 1100 and was designed in 1979 by a British industrial designer, Bill Moggridge |
First PC | IBM 5100 Portable Computer by IBM |
Floppy Disk | Alan Shugart & IBM |
Hard Disk | The IBM Model 350 Disk File by IBM in 1956 |
Integrated Circuit | Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce in 1958 |
Key board | Herman Hollerith first keypunch devices in 1930’s |
Laser printer | Gary Starkweather at XEROX in 1969 |
Microprocessor | Intel 4004 Computer Microprocessor – Faggin, Hoff & Mazor in 1971 |
Operation System | Gary Kildall (CP/M (Control Program for Microcomputers) and Bill Gates of Microsoft (MS-DOS) |
RAM | An Wang at Harvard University’s Computation Lab and Jay Forrester at MIT in 1951 |
Trackball | Tom Cranston and Fred Longstaff in 1952 |
Transistor | John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley in 1947 |