Computer History Timeline

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  • Hewlett-Pickard

    Hewlett-Pickard

    David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which rapidly becomes a popular piece of test equipment for engineers.
  • Z3

    Z3

    The Z3 was an early computer built by German engineer Konrad Zuse working in complete isolation from developments elsewhere. Using 2,300 relays, the Z3 used floating point binary arithmetic and had a 22-bit word length.
  • Harvard Mark-1

    Harvard Mark-1

    Conceived by Harvard professor Howard Aiken, and designed and built by IBM, the Harvard Mark-1 was a room-sized, relay-based calculator.
  • ERA 1101

    ERA 1101

    First commercially produced computer w/ earliest magnetic storage devices
  • IBM 650 magnetic drum calculator

    IBM 650 magnetic drum calculator

    first mass-produced computer (sold 450 in one year, whoa so many)
  • System/360

    System/360

    could perform up to 3 million instructiones per second
  • PDP-8

    PDP-8

    first commercially successful minicpmputer
  • The Micral

    The Micral

    earliest commercial, non-kit computer
  • Apple-1

    Apple-1

    first Apple computer
  • ST506

    ST506

    first hard disk drive for microcomputers- held 5 megabytes of data