Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Major computer Inventions


Computer History
Year/Enter
Computer History
Inventors/Inventions
Computer History
Description of Event
Konrad Zuse - Z1 Computer
First freely programmable computer.
John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry
ABC Computer
Who was first in the computing biz is not always as easy as ABC.
Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper
Harvard Mark I Computer
The Harvard Mark 1 computer.
John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
ENIAC 1 Computer
20,000 vacuum tubes later...
Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn
Manchester Baby Computer & The Williams Tube
Baby and the Williams Tube turn on the memories.
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley
The Transistor
No, a transistor is not a computer, but this invention greatly affected the history of computers.
John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
UNIVAC Computer
First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners.
International Business Machines
IBM 701 EDPM Computer
IBM enters into 'The History of Computers'.
John Backus & IBM
FORTRAN Computer Programming Language
The first successful high level programming language.
Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America, and General Electric
ERMA and MICR
The first bank industry computer - also MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) for reading checks.
Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
The Integrated Circuit
Otherwise known as 'The Chip'
Steve Russell & MIT
Spacewar Computer Game
The first computer game invented.
Douglas Engelbart
Computer Mouse & Windows
Nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end.
ARPAnet
The original Internet.
Intel 1103 Computer Memory
The world's first available dynamic RAM chip.
Faggin, Hoff & Mazor
Intel 4004 Computer Microprocessor
The first microprocessor.
Alan Shugart &IBM
The "Floppy" Disk
Nicknamed the "Floppy" for its flexibility.
Robert Metcalfe & Xerox
The Ethernet Computer Networking
Networking.
Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 Computers
The first consumer computers.
Apple I, II & TRS-80 & Commodore Pet Computers
More first consumer computers.
Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston
VisiCalc Spreadsheet Software
Any product that pays for itself in two weeks is a surefire winner.
Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Barnaby
WordStar Software
Word Processors.
IBM
The IBM PC - Home Computer
From an "Acorn" grows a personal computer revolution
Microsoft
MS-DOS Computer Operating System
From "Quick And Dirty" comes the operating system of the century.
Apple Lisa Computer
The first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface.
Apple Macintosh Computer
The more affordable home computer with a GUI.
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple.


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