Connor Alexander History of Computer

  • John Bardeen, Walter brattain, and Wiliam Shockley

    John Bardeen, Walter brattain, and Wiliam Shockley

    The transistor is created, which greatly affected the history of computer.
  • John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly

    John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly

    First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners.
  • International Business Machines

    International Business Machines

    IBM enters into 'The History of Computers'
  • John Backus & IBM

    John Backus & IBM

    The First successful high level programming language
  • Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America, and General Electric

    Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America, and General Electric

    During the 1950s, researchers at the Stanford Research Institute invented "ERMA", the Electronic Recording Method of Accounting computer processing system. ERMA began as a project for the Bank of America in an effort to computerize the banking industry.
  • Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce

    Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce

    The Integrated Circuit is invented
  • Steve Russell & MIT

    Steve Russell & MIT

    Space war First computer game invented
  • Douglas Engelbart

    Douglas Engelbart

    Invents the computer mouse
  • ARPAnet

    ARPAnet

    Work had begun on the ARPAnet, grandfather to the Internet
  • Faggin, Hoff and Mazor

    Faggin, Hoff and Mazor

    The world's first single chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004 was created by Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stanley Mazor
  • ECN

    ECN

    Robert Metcalfe created ethernet computer Network for connecting computers within a building using hardware running from machine to machine
  • Apple I

    Apple I

    Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs released the Apple I computer and started Apple Computers
  • VisiCalc Spreadsheet Software

    VisiCalc Spreadsheet Software

    The first computer spreadsheet program was release to run on Apple II
  • IBM & Bill Gates

    IBM & Bill Gates

    IBM met with Bill Gate for the first time to talk about an operating system for IBM's new personal computer Acorn
  • Microsoft Windows

    Microsoft Windows

    Microsoft begins the Microsoft Windows, a next generation operating system that would provide a graphical user interface and a multitasking environment for IBM