Hannah Alexander's Hardware History Timeline

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    Hardware History

  • invention of the Atanasoff-Berry-Computer

    John Vincent Atanasoff invented the Atanasoff-Berry Computer during 1937–1942.
  • The first minicomputer was created in the USSR in 1958–1962.

  • invention of the PDP-8

    Edson de Castro designed the initial version of the PDP-8 on 22 March 1965
  • Micheal Hart invented the first e-book

  • Magnavox released the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console in 1972

  • Steven Sasson created the first digital camera

    Steven Sasson In the mid to late 1990s
  • Henry Edward "Ed" Roberts invented the first commercially successful personal computer in 1975.

  • Ed Roberts made the first microcomputer

  • Henry Edward "Ed" Roberts invented the first commercially successful personal computer in 1975.

  • invetion of the apple computer

    Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak effectively created Apple Computer on April 1, 1976
  • William Moggridge invented the first laptop in1979

  • Bill Gates invented IBM's PC

    Microsoft's Bill Gates agreed to create an operating system for IBM's new computer for the home consumer, which IBM released on August 12 1981.
  • Fusajiro Yamauchi invented Nintendo

    Fusajiro Yamauchi made Nintendo in the 1960s
  • The very first Smartphones was invented by IBM in 1992.

  • In 1991 Dr. Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky made the first webcam