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Computer story timeline

By Francesco0305

  • Mechanical calculator

    Mechanical calculator
    Wilhelm Schickard built the first mechanical calculator

  • Binary system

    Binary system
    Gottfried Leibniz invented the binary system, on which future computers were based

  • First high-level programming language

    First high-level programming language
    Konrad Zuse designed the first high-level programming language

  • First transistor

    First transistor
    The first transistor was developed at the Bell Telephone

  • First Soviet computer

    First Soviet computer
    The first Soviet computer, MESM (M∋CM in Russian, small electronic calculating machine), was created under the direction of Sergei Alexeevich Lebedev at the Electro-Technology Institute of Kiev. It was composed of 6,000vacuum tubes and performed 3,000 operations per second

  • PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor)

    PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor)
    Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) launched the PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor), the first interactive computer that pioneered the concept of the minicomputer. With a clock speed of 0.2 MHz, it could execute 100,000 operations per second.

  • First mouse

    First mouse
    Douglas Engelbart, who later patented the first mouse

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet, four universities were connected.

  • Blue boxes

    Blue boxes
    Steve Paul Jobs and Stephan Gary “Woz” Wozniak started building and selling “blue boxes” in California.

  • 1K RAM

    1K RAM
    Intel presented a 1K RAM chip and the 4004, a 4-bit microprocessor.

  • First binary circuit

    First binary circuit
    George Stibitz built the first binaty circuit

  • Telenet

    Telenet
    BBN opened Telenet, the first public network

  • First binary circuit

    First binary circuit
    Paul Allen and Bill Gates founded Microsoft, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.

  • Apple

    Apple
    Steve Jobs and Stephan Wozniak formed Apple Computers.

  • BASIC

    BASIC
    Microsoft was approached by IBM to develop BASIC
    for its personal computer project.

  • IBM PC

    IBM PC
    The first IBM PC (model 5150) was released

  • TCP/IP

    TCP/IP
    TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) was established as the standard for ARPANET.

  • The Commodore 64

    The Commodore 64
    The Commodore 64 (or C64, right), sold about 30 million units, making it the best-selling PC of all time. With a 6510 MOS technology processor at 1 MHz, a 16 colours screen and a sound card, it was sold for “only” $ 595.

  • Apple Macintosh

    Apple Macintosh
    The Apple Macintosh debuted in 1984, featuring a simple,
    graphical interface: it used the 8 MHz 32-bit Motorola 68000 CPU, and had a built-in 9-inch B/W screen.