OLD Computer Hardware with Images

First Computer Mouse

The first computer mouse was invented in 1963 by Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute.

First Hard Drive

The first hard disk drive, IBM Model 350.

First RAM (Random Access memory)

Invented in 1951 as a result of work done by An Wang at Harvard University’s Computation Lab and Jay Forrester at MIT.

First TrackBall

The trackball was  invented  in 1952. It was invented by Tom Cranston and Fred Longstaff.

First Portable Computer

The IBM 5100 Portable Computer was introduced in 1975, weighed 25 kg.