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In a departure from using magnetic core memory technology, IBM introduces the System 370 Model 145 mainframe computer, the company's first all-semiconductor memory computer. The Model 145 could store an equivalent amount of data in half the space, compared to a computer using core memory.
The 1970s Science and Technology: Chronology. 1970: The floppy disk is introduced for storing computer information. 1970: January 21 The Boeing 747, the first jumbo jet, is put into commercial service. 1970: April 11 The Apollo 13 mission begins.
Learn more about the history of technology from the first tools to the space age to the computer age.
28 cze 2019 · Technology that changed us: The 1970s, from Pong to Apollo. In this 50-year retrospective, we're not just looking at technology year by year, we're looking at technologies that had an impact on...
12 lut 2023 · 1970s– 1980s: James Dyson invents the bagless, cyclonic vacuum cleaner. Vacuum cleaners: 1970s– 1980s: Scientists including Charles Bennett, Paul Benioff, Richard Feynman, and David Deutsch sketch out how quantum computers might work. Quantum computers: 1980s
The pace of technological change is much faster now than it has been in the past, according to Our World in Data. It took 2.4 million years for our ancestors to control fire and use it for cooking, but 66 years to go from the first flight to humans landing on the moon.
Technology. The birth of modern computing was in the 1970s. The world's first general microprocessor, the Intel 4004, came out in November 1971. The C programming language was developed early in the decade and the Unix operating system was rewritten into it in 1973.
