Computers By BABoughton16 Jul 16, 1939 Hewlett-Packard is Founded. David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard Mar 27, 1941 Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 computer. Apr 14, 1942 The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) is completed. Jan 24, 1946 University of Pennsylvania´s Moore School of Electrical Engineering stimulated construction of stored-program computers May 27, 1950 Engineering Research Associates of Minneapolis built the ERA 1101, the first commercially produced computer Jan 24, 1956 MIT researchers built the TX-0, the first general-purpose, programmable computer built with transistors. Sep 9, 1962 The LINC (Laboratory Instrumentation Computer) offered the first real time laboratory data processing. Aug 10, 1964 CDC´s 6600 supercomputer, designed by Seymour Cray, performed up to 3 million instructions per second Apr 28, 1974 Researchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center designed the Alto — the first work station with a built-in mouse for input. May 12, 1976 Steve Wozniak designed the Apple I, a single-board computer. Jan 24, 1979 Atari introduces the Model 400 and 800 Computer. Jan 24, 1984 Apple Computer launched the Macintosh, the first successful mouse-driven computer with a graphic user interface Oct 17, 1987 IBM introduced its PS/2 machines, which made the 3 1/2-inch floppy disk drive and video graphics array standard for IBM computers.
