Like the first-ever sales brochure for an electronic digital computer, put out in 1947.
First switched on in 1943, Colossus is now acknowledged as being the world's first electronic, digital computer.
Most researchers to agree that there is little a DNA computer can do that a digital computer can't, even in theory.
Most researchers seem to agree that there is little a DNA computer can do that a digital computer can't, even in theory.
And so it was that from 1947 to 1951, the MIT Digital Computer Laboratory designed the Whirlwind I, the first digital computer at MIT.
The world's first successful digital computer could produce the same numbers in thirty seconds that it took a person twelve hours to figure with a calculator.
Mr Lobban also praised the technological achievements of Turing's colleagues - including Tommy Flowers, a post office engineer who designed and constructed the Colossus codebreaking digital computer.
Since the days of Alan Turing, the promise of a digital computer has been that of a universal machine, one that can be a word processor one minute and a robot brain the next.
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Rather than dismiss my proposal, Al gave me the full measure of his time and insight even though a new generation of ground-based full-motion simulators based upon advanced digital computer technology was emerging, which FlightSafety would later incorporate.
World War II gave us not only the digital electronic computer, but also, thanks to radar and microwave technology, modern telecommunications.
Univac introduced a metal substrate tape and tape recorder for computer digital recording in 1951.
The process turns digital models on computer screens into three-dimensional solid objects using plastics and other materials.
Officials said they made digital radiographs and computer scans to document the internal condition of the battery before taking it apart.
Laser is the foundation of countless technologies we use each day: the Internet, digital media, computer hard drives, satellite broadcasting, laser eye surgery, and laser cancer treatment.
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The Vaio Digital Studio 547 computer includes a 500MHz Pentium III processor, 128 MB of RAM, a 8x DVD-ROM drive, a 4x Rewritable CD (CD-RW) drive, and a 20 GB hard drive.
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And, they found, the actual number of illicit digital copies of computer games accessed on BitTorrent is nowhere near as high as claimed, with only around 12.6 million unique peers worldwide sharing illicit copies of games.
Apple has long been touting a digital-hub strategy in which the computer becomes a central device in a digital-entertainment universe.
The graveyard of once-high-flying stocks includes Digital Equipment, Apollo Computer, Data General and Silicon Graphics (now SGI).
Incredibly, the FDA is still dragging its feet: It won't allow radiologists to read digital results on a computer screen.
In doing so you leave your digital identity on your computer, and there is nothing criminals love more than a valid online identity.
With the HP DreamScreen's capabilities, it becomes the "fourth screen" in people's lives, extending the enjoyment of digital content beyond a computer, TV and mobile phone.
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Jack Buser, senior director of PlayStation digital platforms for Sony Computer Entertainment America, says the company will expand that technology to all kinds of other Sony products.
Eye-Fi, a wireless memory card that can automatically upload photos from a digital camera to a computer or Web site, will be on display at the Las Vegas show.
The computer as digital home entertainment hub is the tech world's endless come-on, but it has always seemed the kind of idea that only a crash-tolerant geek could embrace.
John Atanasoff's computer was digital, but not reprogrammable.
But Gilder says all of the components and companies are now in place to make the revolutionary step into the age of the "teleputer, " or a handheld device that's a fully functioning personal computer, digital video camera, telephone, MP3 player and video player.
The genome project, which the government began in 1987, aimed to speed the gene-hunting effort by providing the first full map of all 3 billion base pairs that make up human DNA. (It was not necessary, in this effort, to run through all the pairs on each set of chromosomes, or 6 billion pairs.) And because the base pairs come in only four varieties, they are digital and ideal for computer decoding.
Clickfree devices are designed to automatically start, search, organize and backup your computer's digital files.
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Designs can be created using computer graphics, digital photography, line drawing and painting.
Naturally, there is a lot of art (digital drawings, photos, computer animation) on display at Macworld, as well as actual artists.
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