In Karlsruhe, Germany, Captian Max von Stephanitz and other dedicated breeders produced a responsive, obedient and handsome German Shepherd using longhaired, shorthaired and wire-haired local herding and farm dogs from Wurtemberg, Thurginia and Bavaria.
Judges settled on John Blankenbakerâs Kenbak-1 as the first personal computer.Designed in 1971, before microprocessors were invented, the Kenbak-1 had 256 bytes of memory and featured small and medium scale integrated circuits on a single circuit board.The title of first personal computer using a microprocessor went to the 1973 Micral.
During this early era of computing, there were a few notable achievements. A tide-predicting machine, invented by Scotch-Irish mathematician, physicist and engineer Sir William Thomson in 1872, was considered the first modern analog computer.