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COMPUTER HISTORY

1936 – Konrad Zuse,Z1 COMPUTER – First freely programmable computer.

1942 – John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry,ABC COMPUTER – Who was first in the computing biz is not always as ABC.

1944 – Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper,HARVARD MARK I COMPUTER – The Harvard Mark 1 computer.

1946 – John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly,ENAC 1 COMPUTER – 20.000 vacuum tubes later…

1948 – Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn,MANCHESTER BABY COMPUTER & THE WILLIAMS TUBE – Baby and the Williams Tube turn on the memories.

1947\48 – John Bardeen,Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockly,THE TRANSISTOR – No,a transistor is not a computer,but this invention greatly affected the history of computers.

1951 – John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly,UNIVAC TRANSISTOR – First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners.

1953 – International Business Machines,IBM 701 EDPM COMPUTER – IBM enters ‘The History of Computers’.

1954 – John Backus & IBM,FORTAN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE – The first successful high level programming language.

1955(In Use 1959) - Sdtanford Research Institute,Bank of America,and General Electric,ERMA AND MICR The first band industry computer-also MICR(magnetic ink character reconition)for reading cheks.

1958 – Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce,THE INTEGRATER CIRCUIT – Otherwise known as ‘The Chip’.

The first computer game invented.

1962 – Steve Russell & MIT,SPACEWEAR COMPUTER GAME – The first computer game invented.

1964 – Douglas Engelbart,COMPUTER MOUSE & WINDOWS – Nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end.

1969 – ARPANET – The original Internet.

1970 – INTEL 1103 COMPUTER MEMORY – The world’s first available dynamic RAM chip.

1971 – Faggin,Hoff & Mazor,INTEL 4004 COMPUTER MICROPROCESOR – The first microprocessor.

1971 – Alan Shugart & IBM,THE ‘FLOPPY’ DISK – Nicknamed the ‘floppy’ for its flexibility.

1973 – Robert Metcalfe & Xerox,THE ETHERNET COMPUTER NETWORKING – Networking.

1974\75 – SCELBI & MARK 8 ALTAIR & IBM 5100 COMPUTERS – The first consumer computers.

1976\77 – APPLE I,II,& TRS 80 & COMMODORE PET COMPUTERS – more first consumer computers.

1978 – Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston,VISICALC SPREADSHEET SOFTWARE – Any product that pays for itself in two weeks is a surefire winner.

1070 – Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Banaby,WORDSTAR SOFTWARE – Word Processors.

1981 – IBM,THE IBM PC\HOME SOFTWARE – From an’Acorn’ grows a personal computer revolution.

1981 – Microsoft,MS\DOS COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEM – From ‘quick and dirty’ comes the operating system of country.

1983 – APPLE LISA COMPUTER – The first home computer with GUI,graphical user interface.

1984 – APPLE MACINTOSH COMPUTER – The more affordable home computer with GUI.

1985 – MICROSOFT WINDOWS – Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple.