Computer Technology History

By XinyangLi
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    binary-based on ABC was created

    Iowa State College's John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry create a prototype of the binary-based ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer).

  • "Handy Talkie"

    "Handy Talkie"
    Handy TalkieThe first handheld two-way radio called the "Handy Talkie" is created by Motorola for the U.S. Army Signal Control.

  • The First Computer

    The First Computer
    first computerGerman Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3, a fully program-operational calculating machine. The computer is publically introduced in Berlin May 12, 1941.

  • UNIVAC

    UNIVAC
    UNIVACThe United States Government receives the UNIVAC 1101 or ERA 1101. This computer is considered to be the first computer that was capable of storing and running a program from memory.

  • IBM701

    IBM701
    IBM701IBM introduces the 701 to the public April 7, 1953. The 701 is IBM's first electric computer and first mass produced computer. A total of 19 are produced and sold.

  • IBM 305 RAMAC

    IBM 305 RAMAC
    IBM 305 RAMACOn September 13, 1956 the IBM 305 RAMAC is the first computer to be shipped with a hard drive. The hard drive contained 50 24-inch platters and was capable of storing 5 million characters and weighed a ton.

  • SAGE

    SAGEIn the late 1950s early networks of communicating computers included the military radar system Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE).

  • BASIC

    BASICHas been designed in 1963, to be easy to learn and has been implemented in 1964.

  • First Phone

    First Phone
    First PhoneDr. Martin Cooper makes the first handheld cellular phone call to Dr. Joel S. Engel April 3, 1973.

  • Microsoft

    Microsoft
    MicrosoftBill Gates and Paul Allen Establish Microsoft April 4, 1975 after creating Altair BASIC. The program is later developed into Microsoft BASIC.

  • Apple

    Apple
    AppleSteve Jobs and Steve Wozniak demonstrate the first Apple computer at the Home Brew Computer Club in April of 1976. The Apple I had 6502 MOS 1MHz processor, 8kB of onboard memory, and 1kB of VRAM for $666.66. Below is a picture of an Apple I from an advertisement by Apple.

  • ARCNET

    ARCNETIn 1976 John Murphy of Datapoint Corporation created ARCNET, a token-passing network first used to share storage devices.

  • C

    C
    CDuel between structured programming with Pascal and efficiency of C language. Basic generalized on personal computers from 1977, until the late 80s.

  • C++

    C++
    C++Objective C, invented by Brad Cox in 1984, is another objet oriented version of C, inspired by smalltalk. No operator overloading.

  • GAP

    GAP
    GAPThe language has been defined to program mathematical algorithms.
    It is interpreted, interactive an untyped.

  • Java

    Java
    JavaConceived at the beginning, in 1991, as an interactive language named Oak, was unsuccessful. But in 1994 has been rewritten for Internet and renamed Java.