CIS 105 timeline

  • 1968

    Rotary phone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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    1968 to 2022

  • 1979

    Radio Shack TRS 30 The original version, renamed the Model I when the TRS-80 Model II was announced in the summer of 1979, was invented by Don French, a buyer for Tandy, and Steve Leininger, the head of the Homebrew Computer Association.
  • 1987

    Al Gross in 1949 invented the pager for NYC hospitals. There were 3.2 million pager users worldwide at the beginning of the 1980s.1 At that time pagers had a limited range and were used mostly in on-site situations—for example, when medical workers needed to communicate with each other within a hospital. At this point, Motorola was also producing devices with alphanumeric displays A decade later, wide-area paging had been invented, and by 1994, there were over 61 million in use,
  • 1998

    Gateway Computers built brand recognition in part by shipping computers in spotted boxes patterned after Holstein cow markings. AOL acquired Gateway.net, the online component of Gateway, Inc. in October 1999 for US$800 million. On October 16, 2007, Acer completed its acquisition of Gateway.[2] In September 2020, Acer granted Gateway branding and licensing rights to Bmorn Technology,
  • 2001

    Dell Computers was hardware founded by Michael Dell in 1984. a University of Texas student selling computers out of a condominium. By the first quarter of 2001, Dell Inc. reached a world market share of 12.8 percent, surpassing Compaq to become the world's largest PC maker.
  • 2013

    Inventor-Steve Jobs These iMacs come in four standard configurations, two 21.5-inch models and two 27-inchers. All use quad-core Intel i5 (Haswell) processors, 8GB of memory and 1TB hard drives.
  • 2022

    The 2013 iMac won't update anymore so on to another unit
    I have a 2017 iMac Monterey also with 2.8 GHz Intel Core i5.