computer history project

  • universal turing machine created

    universal turing machine created

    utlcreated by Alan Turing was know as the origin of the stored program computer. John Von Nueman used this to create one of the earliest computers the EDVAC
  • ENIAC invented

    ENIAC invented

    ENIACENIAC created by University of Pennsylvania. (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) first computer, took up the space of two classroms.
  • MIT's Whrilwind invented

    MIT's Whrilwind invented

    whirlwindFWhrilwind was the first computer to run in real time. and was 16 times faster than current existing computers. first computer to use cathode ray tube memory.
  • IBM 701 invented

    IBM 701 invented

    IBM 701kown as the defense calculator it was ibm's first scientific computer. It had a memory of 2048 words or 1024 bits.
  • basic is created

    basic is created

    basicThe Basic computer language is tested at Dartmouth College. Designed by Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny. It was used primarily for students at the college.
  • arpanet creation

    arpanet creation

    arpanetArpanet was the first attempt to nationally connect all computers via a gaint network. The creation of Arpanet led to the creation of the internet. BBN was a major contributor to the creation of Aranet
  • invention of the microprovessor

    invention of the microprovessor

    intel 4004the intel 4004 wasn a micro processor very similar to today's cpu.
    Intel® 4004 became the first general-purpose programmable processor on the market.
  • apple 1 goes on sale

    apple 1 goes on sale

    apple 1Apple's first product, used a homeade woden computer case. Originaly sold for $666.66. The comouter required the seperate buying of a computer moniter.
  • creation of MS-DOS

    creation of MS-DOS

    microsoft OSPual Allen and Bill Gates co-founders of micrsoft take on the challenge code named "Chess" given by IBM. In response they craeted the first operating system for Microsoft computers
  • mouse becomes popular

    mouse becomes popular

    apple mouseupon the creation of the of the Macintosh 128k apple sold its first mouse. Apple sold a mouse to go along with its computer about the same tine as microsoft sold theirs.
  • toshiba T110 goes on sale

    toshiba T110 goes on sale

    T1100The Toshiba T1100 was the first mass produced laptop on the market. The T1100 weighed in at 9lbs only had 256KB or an upgradable 640KB of memory and was priced at $1899.
  • first graphing calculator

    first graphing calculator

    graphing calculatorThe Casio fx-700g was the world's first graphing calculator available. It allowed for 82 different scientific functions and was also programmable.
  • wifi's first commercial use of wifi

    wifi's first commercial use of wifi

    wifi(wireless fidelity) was actually an Australlian invention. allows a large network with out wires.
  • firefox version 1.0 was released

    firefox version 1.0 was released

    firefox It was a another web browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Netscape. The mozilla project began in 1998 and was originally called pheonix.
  • watson's debut on jeopardy

    watson's debut on jeopardy

    watsonwatson was programmed in several different languages such as java C++ and prolog. it could process as many as 500 GB or a million books per second. Watson's estimated hardware cost was $3 million.