Computer History Time Line By lbowering15 Period: Jan 1, 1940 to Nov 7, 2011 Computer History Nov 11, 1940 First two-way hand held radio The first two-way held held radio was invented in 1940 created by motorola. Nov 15, 1943 Motorola designs the first portable walkie talkie Oct 4, 1957 Russia launches the first artificial satillite Nov 17, 1960 IBM's 1400 series machines is released Nov 17, 1971 First Laser Printer is developed at Xerox PARC Nov 17, 1982 Adobe is founded Nov 17, 1983 Motorola comes out with the first mobile phone Nov 17, 1986 The Gigabyte is founded Nov 17, 1998 Apple releases the iMac Nov 17, 2005 Population of the Interenet reaches 1 billion Nov 17, 2010 2 billion people are using the internet
