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Hardware History Timeline
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Nintendo
Nintendo was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi, Originally founded as a card company in late 1889 named Nintendo Koppai. In 1966, Nintendo moved into the Japanese toy industry where Hiroshi Yamauchi, grandson of Fusajiro Yamauchi moved it from maintenance to the new "Nintendo Games" department as a product developer. -
First Generation of computers
Vacuum tubes were the first generation used to circuitry and magnetic drums for memory. they also use level programming language understood by computers, to perform operations. -
Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC)
ABC was made for a specific purpose to find solution of systems of simultaneous linear equations. It could handle systems with up to twenty-nine equations, a difficult problem for the time. it was invented by John Vincent Atanasoff -
Second Generation of computers
Transistors were the second generation computers ordinary invented in 1947 but did not see widespread use in computers until the late 1950s Transistors were the second generation used to allowed computers to become faster, smaller, more energy efficient and more reliable. -
DEC PDP-8 (Digital Equipment Corporation)
Digital equipment crop. was founded by Kenneth Olsen and Harlan Anderson, electronics engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the idea of building a family of high-performance, low-cost computers that could receive and analyze data from a wide array of scientific instruments -
Third Generation of computers
Integrated Circuit was the third generation of computers that allowed the device to run many different applications at one time with a central program that monitored the memory making Computers for the first time became accessible to a mass audience because they were smaller and cheaper than their predecessors -
Minicomputers
Minicomputers were invented in 1965 by a U.S engineer named Kenneth Olsen. Mini computers filled that mid-range area between low powered microcomputers and high capacity main frames. The MiniÕs was a more powerful computer system that run full multi-user, multitasking operating systems like VMS and UNIX. -
Fourth Generation of computer
Microprocessors were the fourth which allowed thousands of integrated circuits to be built onto a single silicon chip and all the components of the computer from the central processing unit and memory to uses input/output controls on a single chip. -
E-books
was invented by a person called Micheal Hart. it was made as a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other electronic devices -
Game consoles
The Game consoles were invented in 1972 by Ralph H. Baer a German-American who had conceived the idea of a home video game in 1951.It was an interactive computer that produces a video display signal which can be used with a television, monitor to display a video game. -
Microcomputers
Microcomputer was a small, relatively inexpensive computer with a microprocessor as its central processing unit (CPU). It was invented by Mers Kutt On Sept. 25, 1973 -
Digital Camera
Steven Sasson was inventer of the first electronic camera using a charge-coupled device image sensor. Earlier ones used a camera tube and the later ones digitized the signal. -
The apple computer
Apple computer was invented in 1976 by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. first Apple computer was revolutionary because it was a single circuit board operating system. -
Fifth Generation of computers
Artificial Intelligence is the fifth generation of computers which are being use today but is still under development. They use parallel processing and superconductors in helping that one day artificial intelligence will become a reality. The main goal of fifth-generation computing is to develop devices that respond to natural language input and are capable of learning and self-organization. -
Personal computers
The personal computer was invented by Philip Don Estridge in 1981. It was the first computer that people could use in their houses. It included a word processing, spreadsheets, databases, Web browsers and e-mail clients, digital media playback, games, and myriad personal productivity and special-purpose software applications -
the labtop
The laptop was invented by Adam Osborne in 1981. It was the first portable computer that a person could bring with them anywhere in the world. It was powered by mains electricity by an AC adapter, and can be used away from an outlet using a rechargeable battery. -
IBM PC (International Business Machines personal computer)
IBM model number 5150 was created by a team of engineers and designers in Boca Raton, Florida. it has proven to be a very reliable ,despite their age of 25 years or more, still function as they did when new -
Kodak Digital Camera System
Kodak Digital Camera System was series of digital single-lens reflex cameras and digital camera backs that were made by Kodak in the 1990s and 2000s, it was invented by Steven Sasson. -
Wabcam
The webcam was created by the Cambridge University science department in 1991. The webcam could put its image in real time on to a computer or computer network by using a USB cable, FireWire cable, or similar cable. -
Smartphone
The smart phone was invented in 1992 by a company called IBM. It was the first phone to feature a calendar, address book, calculator, email service, and even a touch screen
