Computer History By CouchPotater311 Jan 1, 1939 HP founded in garage *Not actual date Jan 1, 1939 Atanasoff-Berry Computer made Apr 7, 1939 CNC is made by Bell Telephone Laboratories Jan 1, 1941 Z3 computer by Konrad Zuse Jan 1, 1943 Z3 destroyed Apr 7, 1943 Project Whirlwind Apr 7, 1944 Harvard Mark-1 A.K.A. IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator Apr 7, 1944 Colossus - Nazi communications decoder Apr 7, 1945 EDVAC Concept Apr 7, 1946 ENIAC by Mauchley Apr 7, 1947 IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator Apr 7, 1949 EDSAC by Maurice Wilkes Apr 7, 1949 Manchester Mark I Apr 7, 1950 ERA 1101 by Engineering Research Associates of Minneapolis Apr 7, 1950 Standards Eastern Automatic Computer by National Bureau of Standards Apr 7, 1951 Whirlwind revealed on "See It Now" Apr 7, 1951 Lyons Electronic Office Apr 7, 1952 SSEC shut down Apr 7, 1953 IBM 701 - First electronic computer by IBM Apr 7, 1954 IBM 650 calculator Apr 7, 1956 TX-0 by MIT Apr 7, 1958 SAGE operated by Whirlwind IIs Apr 7, 1960 Z3 reconstructed Apr 7, 1960 PDP-1 by DEC Apr 7, 1961 IBM has 81.2% of computer market Apr 7, 1962 Laboratory Instrumentation Computer by Lincoln Laboratories Apr 7, 1964 System/360 by IBM Apr 7, 1964 CDC 6600 Apr 7, 1965 PDP-8 by Digital Equipment Corp Apr 7, 1966 HP-2115 Apr 7, 1967 Copies of S/360 start coming out - First by Telex Period: Apr 7, 1968 to Apr 7, 1973 Atansoff Court Case Apr 7, 1971 Intel 4004 - First micro-processor Apr 7, 1974 SCELBI Apr 7, 1974 The Alto by Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Apr 7, 1975 Altair 8800 by MITS Apr 7, 1975 VDM prototype Apr 7, 1975 Tandem-16 Apr 7, 1976 Apple-1 Apr 7, 1976 Cray I Apr 7, 1977 MITS sold to Pertec Apr 7, 1977 Apple II Apr 7, 1979 Atari 400 and 800 released Apr 7, 1981 IBM PC running on MS-DOS Apr 7, 1981 Apollo DN100 Apr 7, 1982 Commodore 64 "greatest selling single computer model of all time" Apr 7, 1983 Apple Lisa Apr 7, 1983 111 000 000 of IBM computer clone sales Apr 7, 1984 Macintosh Apr 7, 1985 Commodore Amiga 1000 Apr 7, 1986 Massive parallelism concept introduced Apr 7, 1987 IBM PS/2 Apr 7, 1989 S/360 architecture makes up more than half of IBM revenue
