Computer History By bewarned Aug 19, 1822 Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer Sep 25, 1950 The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito Sep 26, 1951 T. Raymond Thompson and John Simmons develop the first business computer, the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) at Lyons Co. Sep 27, 1955 Bell Labs introduces its first transistor computer. Oct 7, 1962 The first computer game Spacewar Computer Game invented BY Steve Russell & MIT Oct 8, 1963 Douglas Engelbart invents and patents the first computer mouse (nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end) Oct 10, 1964 IBM introduces the first word processor Oct 18, 1971 E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson Sep 9, 1975 The Microsoft Corporation was founded April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800 Jan 1, 1976 Jobs and Wozniak created the first apple computer, entitled Apple 1. This is important because it started the apple company Oct 2, 1977 Apple Computer’s Apple II, the first personal computer with color graphics, is demonstrated pple Computer’s Apple II, the first personal computer with color graphics, is demonstrated
