evolution of the computers

By camden6

  • steam driven calculating machine

    steam driven calculating machine
    would be able to compute tables of numbers. The project, funded by the English government, is a failure. More than a century later, however, The world’s first computer was actually built.

  • punch card system

    punch card system
    Herman Hollerith designs a punch card system to calculate the 1880 census, accomplishing the task in just three years and saving the government $5 million. He establishes a company that would ultimately become IBM (IBM was founded in 1911).

  • first computer with out gears,cams,belts, or shafts

    first computer with out gears,cams,belts, or shafts
    J.V. Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, attempts to build the first computer without gears, cams, belts or shafts.

  • A computer that can solve 29 equations

    A computer that can solve 29 equations
    Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, design a computer that can solve 29 equations simultaneously. This marks the

  • Electronic Numerical integrator and Calculater (ENIAC)

    Electronic Numerical integrator and Calculater (ENIAC)
    Two University of Pennsylvania professors—John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert—build the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC). Considered the grandfather of digital computers, it fills a 20 foot by 40 foot room and has 18,000 vacuum tubes.

  • UNIVAC

    UNIVAC
    Mauchly and Presper leave the University of Pennsylvania and receive funding from the Census Bureau to build the UNIVAC, the first commercial computer for business and government applications.

  • First computer launguage

    First computer launguage
    Grace Hopper develops the first computer language, which eventually becomes known as COBOL. Inventor Thomas Johnson Watson, Jr., son of IBM CEO Thomas Johnson Watson, Sr., conceives the IBM 701 EDPM to help the United Nations keep tabs on Korea

  • FROTRAN programing language is born

    FROTRAN programing language is born
    The FORTRAN programming language is born.

  • unveiled integrated circuit , know as the computer chip

    unveiled integrated circuit , know as the computer chip
    Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuit, known as the computer chip.

  • first computer with a mouse and a (GUI)

    first computer with a mouse and a (GUI)
    Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern computer, with a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI). This marks the evolution of the computer from a specialized machine for scientists and mathematicians to technology that is more accessible to the general public

  • first dynamic Access Memory (DRAM) chip

    first dynamic Access Memory (DRAM) chip
    The newly formed Intel unveils the Intel 1103, the first Dynamic Access Memory (DRAM) chip.

  • floopy disk

    floopy disk
    Alan Shugart leads a team of IBM engineers who invent the “floppy disk,” allowing data to be shared among computers.

  • Ethernet

    Ethernet
    Robert Metcalfe, a member of the research staff for Xerox, develops Ethernet for connecting multiple computers and other hardware.

  • Trash 80 and the Commodore PET

    Trash 80 and the Commodore PET
    A number of personal computers hit the market, including Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair, IBM 5100, RadioShack’s TRS-80—affectionately known as the “Trash 80,” and the Commodore PET.

  • first commercially available portable computer.

    first commercially available portable computer.
    The IBM 5100 becomes the first commercially available portable computer.