Early Events in Computer History

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
11/04/1829	First Typewriter Invented	The first typewriter is patented by William Austin Burt. It's slow and clumsy, but it's the first writing machine.
11/04/1840	The Invention of Binary Code	Lord Byron's daughter, Ada, suggests to Babbage that he use the binary system. She writes programs for his analytical engine, becoming the world's first programmer.
11/04/1853	Printing Calculator	Scheutz invents the first printing calculator.
11/04/1899	Magnetic Recording	Magnetic recording is invented
11/04/1919	High Speed Circuitry	Two American physicists, Eccles and Jordan, invent the flip-flop circuit which will be necessary for high-speed electronic calculating
11/04/1935	Electric Typewriter	IBM introduces the electric typewriter
11/10/1941	First Digital Computer	Zuse completes his Z3, the first program-controlled electromechanical digital computer.
11/10/1951	Operating computer at M.I.T	The Whirlwind computer begins operations at M.I.T
11/10/1952	Magnetic Memory	Jay Forester develops magnetic memory at M.I.T
11/10/1956	Very First Hard Drive	IBM builds the first hard drive. It contains fifty 24 inch disks and has a capacity of 5 MB and costs over US$1,000,000
11/10/1957	First Disk Storage	IBM introduces RAMAC, a memory storage device based on rotating disks. It is the first hard disk storage.
11/10/1959	Second Gen. Computers	1959 marks the beginning of the second generation of computers. They use transistors instead than tubes.
11/10/1960	First Keyboard and Monitor	Ken Olsen, founder of DEC, introduces the PDP-1. The first computer with a keyboard and a monitor. It is priced at US$120,000
11/10/1962	Very First Video Game	The first video game is developed by grad student, Steve Russell at MIT
11/10/1970	First ATM	The first ATM (Automatic Teller Machine) is installed.
11/10/1975	First Apple Computer	Two other young hacker geeks, Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniac build a computer in Steve's parents garage. They call it the Apple.
11/10/1976	First Sold Apple Computers	Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak design and build the first Apple computers, The Apple 1, in the Jobs' family garage. It's not much more than a circuit board in a wooden box, but they build and sell 200 of them through Paul Terrell's Byte Shop. The price was $666.66
11/10/1980	First Version of a Laptop	Osborne introduces the first "portable" computer, the Osborne 1. It weighs 24 pounds and is the size of a suitcase.
11/10/1983	Very First Laptop	The first "laptop" computer, the TRS-80 Model 100.
11/10/1984	Macintosh is Launched and Shown in the Super Bowl Games	Apple launches the Macintosh with a spectacular presentation at the 1984 Super Bowl games.
11/10/1988	2000 Computer Crash Problem	The Year 2000 problem is first mentioned in print
11/10/1992	Explsion in Viruses.	There are now about 1000 known computer viruses. In 1988 there was 5.
11/10/1996	DVD's	DVD disks come into play.
11/10/1998	iMac	Apple releases the iMac.
11/10/2001	First Xbox	Bill Gates introduces the Xbox on January 7th 2001.
11/10/2011	Present Time	Present Computers