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Key Milestones in Computer History

This document provides a brief summary of important events and inventions in the history of computers from 1936 to 1985: - Konrad Zuse created the Z1 in 1936, considered the first freely programmable computer. John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry developed the ABC computer in 1942. Determining who was truly first is complex. - The 1940s saw developments like the Harvard Mark 1 (1944), ENIAC (1946), the Manchester Baby and Williams Tube (1948). The transistor, invented by Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley in 1947, greatly impacted the computer industry. - UNIVAC (1951) was the first commercial computer able to predict presidential elections. IBM entered the

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Key Milestones in Computer History

This document provides a brief summary of important events and inventions in the history of computers from 1936 to 1985: - Konrad Zuse created the Z1 in 1936, considered the first freely programmable computer. John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry developed the ABC computer in 1942. Determining who was truly first is complex. - The 1940s saw developments like the Harvard Mark 1 (1944), ENIAC (1946), the Manchester Baby and Williams Tube (1948). The transistor, invented by Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley in 1947, greatly impacted the computer industry. - UNIVAC (1951) was the first commercial computer able to predict presidential elections. IBM entered the

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COMPUTER HISTORY

COMANDAO
CORPUZ
ACASIO
SORIANO
SALVADOR
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 easy as
ABC.
1944 Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper
Harvard Mark I Computer

The Harvard Mark 1 computer.

The Harvard Mark 1


computer
1946 John Presper Eckert & John W.
Mauchly
ENIAC 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 Shockley
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 Computer

First commercial computer & able to


pick presidential winners.
1953 International Business Machines
IBM 701 EDPM Computer

IBM enters into 'The History of Computers'.


1954 John Backus & IBM
FORTRAN Computer Programming Language
The first successful high level
programming language.
1955(In Use 1959) 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.
1958 Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
The Integrated Circuit

Otherwise known as 'The Chip'


1962 Steve Russell & MIT
Spacewar 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 Microprocessor

The first microprocessor.


1971 Alan Shugart &IBM
The "Floppy" Disk

Nicknamed the "Floppy" for its


flexibility.
1973 Robert Metcalfe & Xerox
The Ethernet Computer Networking

system for connecting


computers within a
building using hardware
running from machine to
machine. It differs from
the Internet
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
the first computer spreadsheet program. It was released
to the public in 1979, running on an Apple II
computer. While most early microprocessor computers
had been quickly supported by BASIC and a few
games,
1979 Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Barnaby
WordStar Software

first commercially successful word processing


software program produced for microcomputers
and the best selling software program of the early
eighties.
1981 IBM
The IBM PC - Home Computer

From an "Acorn" grows a


personal computer
revolution
1983 Apple Lisa Computer

The first home computer with a GUI,


graphical user interface.
1984 Apple Macintosh Computer

The more affordable home computer with a GUI.


1985 Microsoft Windows

Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple

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