Computer history project

history of cumputers

Period: Jan 1, 1930 to Sep 13, 2012

Z1

Sep 13, 1938

Z1Invented by Konrad Zuse. He aslo invented the z2 and 3 but died in 1995. Unfortunatly the actaul first Z1 was destoyed in a allied bombing in December 1943 along with plans. He rebuilt though in 1989 and it is now in the Berlin Museum of Technology

ENIAC invented

Jul 29, 1946

ENIACelcetronic Numerical Intergrater and computer was the first computer in the world. Invented for the U.S army. As big as a room and costs $500,000. Constucted by the University of Pennsylvanai

IBM702

Sep 25, 1953

IBM 702
aimed at buisness because of its computational power. The memmory could be from 2,000-10,000 characters. The first production model was not installed until July 1955.

ARPANET

Apr 7, 1969

ARPANET
ARPANET the plans were made by Bob Taylor. It was built by BBN Technologies. It took nine months to develope the system including hardware and packet switching software.

Nova

Sep 14, 1969

Data Gernal Nova
Nova was made by the company Data General. Evantually 50,000 units were sold. It also had enough power to do simple tasks. Mostly used in scientists's labatories.

Floppy disk

Sep 1, 1971

Floppy Disk
Introduced by IBM. It got it =s name for the disks flexablility. It suppose to upload micronodes into controller of the Merlin .

Ethernet

Sep 1, 1973

Ethernet
It was developed by Xerox Parc. Standarndized in 1985. By 2010 the market for the equipment was 16 billion dollars. Reached 10,000 nodes by 1986 making it the largest computer networks at the time.

apple 1

Sep 14, 1976

Apple 1Hand Built by Steve Woziank. Was on sale for $666.66. 200 units were made. Woziank was the one of only ones that could give computer support.

Apple 2

Jun 10, 1977

apple 2
Desighned by Steve Wozniak. It was manufactured by Apples inc.
It is one of the most successful microcomputers products.

The grid compass

Dec 1, 1979

Grid compass
Made by Willaim Moggridge. Used by NASA in early 1980's for the space program. It was made for Grid system Corporation. It was the first lab top ever.

Macintosh 128K

Dec 1, 1983

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa051599.htm
Was started by Jeff Raskin. they ran a commercail on a unknow station. It cost 1.5 million dollars. News shows and talk shows kept replaying the commercail making TV history. The ad was later played during the Super Bowl so many viewers could see the first glimpse of the Apple Macintosh. first Mac ever.

Macintosh se/30

Sep 1, 1989

Macintosh SE/30
It was manufactured by Apple Computers inc. It was the most exspendable black and white Macintosh there was. It had 32 MB of RAM but could exspand to 128 MB of RAM.

Final Fantasy VII

Sep 17, 1997

Final Fantasy VII
It was devoloped by Square. It came out in 1997. came out for pc a year later for Microsoft Windows. Final Fantasy VII is the first game in the serie to use 3D graphics witch was a huge step for Square.

IMB's flash drive

Dec 15, 2000

Was built by M-Systems. Had 8MB and was 5 times the normal floppy disk. Sold the first one by commericially in 2000.

Ipad 2

Mar 2, 2011

Ipad 2
Has three storage sizes 16, 32, 64 GB. On the annoment they disconintued the ipad. 2.4-2.6 million units were sold the first month.