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The Keyboard
Precursors:
• Typewriter
• Teleprinter
• Keypunches
Computers:
• Binac
• Whirlwind
Cathode Ray Tube
• Invented by Karl Ferdinand
Braun in 1897
• Early computers used
oscilloscope and vector CRTs
• The first computer to use a CRT
display..
Whirlwind
• First demonstrated on
April 20th, 1951
• Used by U.S. Air
Force in it’s SAGE air
defense system.
• First:
– Real time computer
– Graphic display
– Direct keyboard input
SAGE Project
CRT-based
Targets
real-time
selected with
user interface
a light gun
PDP-1
• First commercial
computer with a
keyboard and
monitor.
• Released in 1960
• Hosted the creation
of the first computer
video game
Spacewar!
Spacewar!