Picture a refrigerator sized computer.
Invision a calculator as your keyboard and screen.
Lucky users had a mouse that looked like ham radio and only went up down left right.
Google first computer and use the images tab for more pictures.
The computer got personal when APPLE created one during the 70's
!960's computers were at a crossroads between the Valve type of computer and the newer transistorised and the highly expensive integrated circuit type.
These three types of computers were all available in the early 1960's. Generally they were large, hot and very specialised in their function. They were usually owned by big corporations and were housed in specialised air conditioned floors or rooms.
The processors had access to only a few K of memory and the storage medium was usually a large reel to reel tape machine, or primative hard drive.
I have included a link to a photo of a typical 1960 mainframe in the related links section below.
the coumputers in the 1970s were big and square
Computers in the 1950 were or often mechanical, or there were huge mainframes, the size of a small house sometimes. They had very large components and were very unefficient
they were rubbish compared to our computers people do ot even bother i think they had do do computers
Huge and slow
People who used computers in the 1950's are the same type of people who use them today, namely:MilitaryGovernmentResearchersStudentsBusiness
bick computers :)
No because we have more things that waste electricity today like computers and ipods
Big enough to fill an entire room.
John Von Neuman.
Austin,tx 1950's go UT!!
For a start, Barbie dolls were invented. And, also, in 1950, the first mass production of computers happened.
There weren't computers like these today, to make a big enough impact on the world
Grace Hopper, John Backus, etc.
Computers did not exist in 1667.
Computers were no sold to the public in the 1950's, so you couldn't buy one. Desktop computers did not exist and neither did things like mice, software, or keyboards for a computer. EM ac the first computer filled an entire room with the machines that made it run. It used magnetic tape and key punch cards for programs and couldn't go online. This was only used by the government. It won't be until another 20+ years before there is a desktop computer.
Yes, those were first generation vacuum tube computers.