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First programmable computer:
The Z1 originally created by Germany's Konrad Zuse in his parents living room in 1936-1938. It is considered to be the first electrical binary programmable computer. -
The first digital computer
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry in 1937 and continued to be developed until 1942 at the Iowa State College. On October 19, 1973, US Federal Judge Earl R. Larson signed his decision that the ENIAC patent by Eckert and Mauchly was invalid and named Atanasoff the inventor of the electronic digital computer. -
The first laptop or portable computer (Final Part)
In 1994 introduces the IBM ThinkPad 775CD, the first notebook with an integrated CD-ROM9. -
The ENIAC was invented.
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 . It occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons. The ENIAC was the first digital computer. -
The first Apple computer
Steve Wozniak designed the first Apple known as the Apple I computer in 1976 .The first computer company was the Electronic Controls Company and was founded in 1949 by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the same individuals who helped create the ENIAC computer. The company was later renamed to EMCC or Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and released a series of mainframe computers under the UNIVAC name. -
The first stored program computer
The early British computer known as the EDSAC is considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. The computer performed its first calculation on May 6, 1949 and was the computer that ran the first graphical computer game. -
The first PC (IBM compatible) computer
On April 7, 1953 IBM publicly introduced the 701 , its first electric computer and first mass produced computer. -
Other major computer company firsts (Final Part)
Toshiba - In 1954 Toshiba introduces its first computer, the "TAC" digital computer -
The first computer with RAM
MIT introduces the Whirlwind machine March 8, 1955 , a revolutionary computer that was the first digital computer with magnetic core RAM and real-time graphics. -
The first transistor computer
The TX-O (Transistorized Experimental computer) and first transistorized computer is demonstrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956 . -
Other major computer company firsts (Part 4)
NEC - In 1958 NEC builds its first computer the "NEAC 1101." -
The first minicomputer
In 1960 Digital Equipment Corporation released its first of many PDP computers the PDP-1 . The first mass-market and desktop computer In 1968, Hewlett Packard began marketing the first mass-marketed PC and the first desktopcomputer, the HP 9100A. -
Other major computer company firsts (Part 3)
Hewlett Packard - In 1966 Hewlett Packard released its first general computer, the "HP-2115." -
Continuum of The first personal computer
The Micral is considered the be the first commercial non-assembly computer. The computer used the Intel 8008 processor and sold for $1,750 in 1973. -
The first workstation
The first workstation is considered to be the Xerox Alto, introduced in 1974. 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. -
The first personal computer
In 1975 Ed Roberts coined the term personal computer when he introduced the Altair 8800. Although the first personal computer is considered to be the Kenback-1, which was first introduced for $750 in 1971. The computer relied on a series of switches for inputting data and output data by turning on and off a series of lights. -
The first laptop or portable computer
The IBM 5100 is the first portable computer, which was released on September 1975. The computer weighed 55 pounds and had a five inch CRT display, tape drive, 1.9MHz PALM processor, and 64KB of RAM. -
The first laptop or portable computer (Part 2)
The first truly portable computer or laptop is considered to be the Osborne I, which was released on April 1981. The Osborne I was developed by Adam Osborne and weighed 24 pounds, had a 5-inch display, 64 KB of memory, two 5 1/4" floppy drives, and a modem . -
Continuum of The first PC (IBM compatible) computer
Later IBM introduced its first personal computer called the "IBM PC" in 1981. The computer was code named and still sometimes referred to as the "Acorn" and had a 8088 processor, 16 KB of memory, which was expandable to 256 and utilizing MS-DOS . -
The first PC clone
The first PC clone was developed by Compaq , the "Compaq Portable" was release in March 1983 and was 100% compatible with IBM computers and software that ran on IBM computers. -
Other major computer company firsts (Part 1)
Compaq - March 1983 Compaq released its first computer and the first 100% IBM compatible computer the "Compaq Portable." -
The first laptop or portable computer (Part 3)
IBM PCD later released the IBM portable in 1984, it's first portable computer that weighed in at 30 pounds. IBM PCD later announced in 1986 it's first laptop computer, the PC Convertible, weighing 12 pounds. -
Other major computer company firsts (Part 2)
Dell - In 1985 Dell introduced its first computer, the "Turbo PC." -
The first multimedia computer
In 1992 Tandy Radio Shack becomes one of the first companies to release a computer based on the MPC standard with its introduction of the M2500 XL/2 and M4020 SX computers.