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The ENIAC was invented by J Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. -
First delivered to the United States government, the UNIVAC 1101 or ERA 1101 is considered the first computer capable of storing and running a program from memory.
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Konrad Zuse began working on the Z4 that later became the first commercial computer. The computer was sold to Eduard Stiefel, a mathematician of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. -
IBM publicly introduced the 701, its first commercial scientific computer.
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the first desktop computer, the Programma 101, was unveiled to the public at the New York World's Fair. It was invented by Pier Giorgio Perotto and manufactured by Olivetti. About 44,000 Programma 101 computers were sold, each with a price tag of $3,200.
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Although it was never sold, the first workstation is considered to be the Xerox Alto, The computer was revolutionary for its time and included a fully functional computer, display, and mouse. The computer operated like many computers today utilizing windows, menus, and icons as an interface to its operating system.
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released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible de facto standard. it was created by a team of engineers and designers directed by Don Estridge in Boca Raton, Florida.
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UK. The World Wide Web is created at the CERN physics laboratory by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Although the paper was published in 1989, it was built in 1990 and the product was launched in 1991.
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Tandy Radio Shack released the M2500 XL/2 and M4020 SX, among the first computers to feature the MPC standard.
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apples Macintosh Portable meets with little success in the marketplace and leads to a complete redesign of Apple's line of portable computers.
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the G5 had comparatively limited space for expansion. Virginia Tech used more than a thousand PowerMac G5s to create the System X cluster supercomputer, rated #3 in November of that year on the world’s TOP500 fastest computers. -
Apple introduces their first ultra notebook a light, thin laptop with high-capacity battery. The Air incorporated many of the technologies that had been associated with Apple's MacBook line of laptops
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With a peak speed of over a petaflop, the Tianhe 1 (Milky Way 1) is developed by the Chinese National University of Defense Technology using Intel Xeon processors combined with AMD graphic processing units (GPUs). -
Nest Learning Thermostat is an early product made for the emerging “Internet of Things” which envisages a world in which common everyday devices have network connectivity and can exchange information or be controlled. -
Building a computer into the watch form factor has been attempted many times but the release of the Apple Watch leads to a new level of excitement.
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