Comp history

Computer History

  • Charles Babbage

    Went to Trinity College hecking accuracy of calculations made for the royal astronomical society & kept finding errors
  • British Government

    They provided Charles with start up funds to finish his project the differnce engine.
  • His struggle

    Charles spent the money and more from his own pocket and only little was put together.
  • Finally

    Charles got enough parts to fix the engine and it worked.
  • Last of Charles

    The orchestra band that gave Charles a hard time and visa vera found out he was ill and surrounded his house and serenated him til he died.
  • Census Beauro

    Tghe census beauro was still hand tallying the data from the 1880 census the beauro looked for any method that could speed up the counting of the 1890 census.
  • punch cards

    The punch cards were finally put to work.
  • Hollereth

    He sold his share in the machine company for over 1 million dollars.
  • IBM

    Watson renamed it International Business Machine also known as IBM.
  • The rise of IBM

    America limpted out of the great depression & IBM grew with success.
  • Critical Shortage

    There was a critical shortage of a surprising compenent of the war machine - firing tables for artilery tables
  • Recognizing the program machine

    Program machine was made & recognized.
  • Popular Electronics

    cover of the Popular Electronics announced the debut of the Altair 8800 ( the 1st personal computer).
  • Jobs & Wozniak

    They officially formed the Apple Computer Company.
  • Osborne Company

    This company introduced the industry 1st portable comp.
  • Mosaic

    the web browser Mosaic was introduced.
  • Salman Khan

    He was an investment analyst in Boston when he began ti post videos to youtube to teach algebra.Today his non-profit named Khan Academy contains over 2,200 vids and over a million students a month use the site.
  • Computer Games

    More than 273 million units of computer games were sold.
  • Increasing unrest

    The goverment responded to the increasing unrest online by turning off the internet for the entire country.