History of Computing

By tjh5129
  • Period: Jan 1, 1200 to

    Manual Calculators

    Manual Calculators called abacus appeared in China in 1200 and Japan in 1600
  • Slide Rule

    in 1621, an English mathematician constructed the first slide rule.
  • Pascaline

    Pascaline a mechanical device that could be used to perfom addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
  • Difference Engine

    Difference Engine, powered by steam power. Invented to quickly and accuratly calulate large tables of numbers.
  • Analytical Engine

    a general-purpose calculating device that was never finished.
  • Hollerith Tabulating Machine

    Used by the U.S. census bureau for the next generation of calculating machines.
  • Period: to

    The Atansoff-Berry Computer (ABC)

    first computer using vaccum tubes was being created.
  • ABC opens the way.

    The ABC might not have been the best computer but it opneded the way for computing futrure.
  • IBM sponsors an engineer

    Howard Aiken, tried to intergrate 73 IBM accounting machines into one unified computing machine.
  • COLOSSUS

    Birtish developers created COLOSSUS
  • ENIAC

    Mauchly and Eckert started to create ENIAC
  • Only 6?

    Aiken thought that only 6 computers would be needed to satisfy the computing needs of the world.
  • AT&T's transistors.

    Second-generation computers came to our world.
  • Transistors take over

    transistors take over and replace vaccum tubes.
  • UNIVAC

    the first UNIVAC computer was created.
  • Period: to

    UNIVAC in houses.

    UNIVAC was delivered to customers.
  • Independent Integrated Circuits

    Texas Instruments develpoed the first independently intergrated circuts.
  • DEC

    Dec introduced the DEC PDP-8, the first commercially succesful minicomputer.
  • 6800 9-bit micro processor

    Motorala release the first bit micro processor.
  • Z80 microprocessor.

    Zilog introuduce the Z80 microprocessor and enhanced 8080 microprocessor.
  • Apple I

    Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded the Apple Computer.
  • Compaq

    Compaq bought DEC and became a new computer company.
  • IBM AS/400

    the IBM AS/400 became known as a minicomputer.