Computer Technology History

binary-based on ABC was created

Period: Oct 11, 1939 to Sep 17, 2015

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

"Handy Talkie"

Sep 17, 1940

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

May 12, 1941

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

UNIVAC

Jan 1, 1950

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

Apr 7, 1953

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

Sep 13, 1956

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

Sep 22, 1958

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

BASIC

Sep 22, 1964

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

First Phone

Apr 4, 1973

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

Microsoft

Apr 4, 1975

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

Apple

Apr 22, 1976

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

Sep 22, 1976

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

C

Sep 22, 1977

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

C++

Sep 22, 1984

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

GAP

Sep 22, 1986

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

Java

Sep 22, 1994

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.