Computers

By mannek90

  • 1946

    Public Unveiling of ENIAC
    Started in 1943, John Mauchly and Presper Eckert built the ENIAC computing system. Because of it is electronic, it is over 1,000 times faster than any previous computer. ENIAC used panel-to-panel wiring and switches for programming, occupied more than 1,000 square feet, used about 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighed 30 tons.

  • 1950

    The ERA sold their first commercially used computer to the US Navy. The 1101 was built for high speed computing and could store 1 million bits.

  • 1960

    The DEC PDP-1 was introduced. It sold for about $120,000. The first computer game, Space war, was designed. They sold over 50 of the DEC PDP-1.

  • 1970

    Gene Amdahl starts his own company after being the father of the IBM System/360. Gene was to compete against IBM. He than created the 470V/6 was the company’s first product and ran the same software as IBM System/370 computers but cost less and was smaller and faster.

  • 1980

    Commodore releases the VIC-20 home computer as the successor to the Commodore PET personal computer. Intended to be a less expensive alternative to the PET, the VIC-20 was highly successful. It was the first computer to sell over a million different ones.

  • 1990

    IBM's 9345 hard disk drive is introduced. The first model of this 5 ¼-inch disk drive had two 1 GB hard disk assemblies (HDAs) and the second model had two 1.5 GB HDAs.

  • 2000

    For the first time more than half of the households in America have Internet access on August 17, 2000 according to Nielsen.

  • 2002

    In February 2002 Google releases its first hardware device called the Google Search Appliance.

  • 2004

    Google announces Gmail on April 1, 2004. Many people take it as an April Fools joke.

  • 2006

    The Blu-ray is first announced and introduced at the 2006 CES on January 4, 2006.

  • 2008

    Amazon acquires Audible for $300 million in March of 2008.

  • 2010

    Intel releases the AHCI specification in October 2010.

  • 2012

    Motif becomes open source.

  • 2014

    Satya Nadella takes over as Microsoft CEO on February 4, 2014.

  • Citation

    Timeline of Computer History “1990 | Timeline of Computer History.” Computer History Museum, www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1990/. Computer Hope “Computer History from 2000 to Today.” Computer Hope, 5 May 2017, www.computerhope.com/history/2000today.htm.