Hailey's Timeline of Technology

  • Holes in Cards

    They were used during 1725, and also know as IBM cards. They allowed companies to store information by entering the card through a computer. Punch cards were mainly used for retrieving data in the 1900s, now there are other advanced technology that we use instead.
  • Analytical Machine

    It started in about 1833 and was the first fully program controlled, automatic, mechanical digital computer. It could perform any calculation and consisted of four components; the mil, the store, the reader and the printer.
  • Von Neumann Architecture

    He promoted the stored program concepts in the 1940’s; how instructions are analyzed, how data is processed, and how the next data is processed.
  • ENIAC

    In 1946 John Mauchly and John Eckert developed ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator). The American military help fund their research
  • High-level Programming Language

    Designed in the 1950s, high-level programming language is made for a specific software job and is easier to understand, some examples are java and pascal.
  • UNIVAC

    Released in 1951 and 1952, it’s an electrical computer that contains thousands of vacuum tubes that has punch cards and switches for inputting/outputting data and punch cards for storing data.
  • UNIX Operating System

    It was developed in 1960s, it is a stable , multi-user, multi- tasking system for servers, desktops, and laptops.
  • PC

    This project started in 1968, we were marketing personal computers for families, the families come play games, send e-mail, etc.
  • CRAY-1

    In 1976, it boasted the world record speed of 160 million floating point operations per second and 8 megabytes main memory.
  • Apple

    Multinational corporation that sells consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. Apple Inc was founded in April of 1976.
  • First Electronic Spreadsheet

    The first spreadsheet was released in 1979. its a new level of application software. It mostly helped with calculating because you were able to change a single number without having to redo the whole calculation.
  • Windows

    Microsoft Windows was introduced for the first time on November 10th, 1983 with Windows 1.0. Windows is an operating system that provides interaction with other computer programs.
  • Macintosh

    A well known model of computer made by Apple Computer, it was introduced in 1984, and utilizes windows, icons, and a mouse.
  • Altair

    A product design and developed for engineering software and cloud computing, made in 1985