It's a joke

Many people have contacted us regarding the "Helping you find the best device drivers for your computer since 1850" quote which appears at the top of the DriverMax web site. This is just a joke.

Computers were not around in 1850. Neither was our company.

We don't really know if this is a good joke or a bad joke. You tell us. :)

When were computers invented?

The first electronic computer was invented and built in 1946.

If computers would have existed in 1850 then perhaps they would have been made out of wood. :)

ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first general-purpose electronic computer. It was the first high-speed digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems, though earlier machines had been built with some of these properties.

ENIAC was designed and built to calculate artillery firing tables for the U.S. Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory.

It was delivered on the 14th of February 1946 and has cost almost 500,000 US dollars.

It weighed 30 short tons (27 metric tones), was roughly 8.5 feet by 3 feet by 80 feet (2.6 m by 0.9 m by 26 m), took up 680 square feet (63 mē), and consumed 150 kW of power.

Compared to today's PCs, ENIAC was extremely underpowered from a computing power and storage memory point of view.