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Successfully designed by John Vincent Atanasoff, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (a.k.a ABC) had Boolean data, and no CPU. Invented at Iowa State University.
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The Colossus was the first electric programmable computer and was developed by Tommy Flowers in 1943 The Colossus was created to help the British code breakers read german messages.
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The first computer to store a program made by the british. Stored the first graphical computer game, "Baby" .
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Developed and sold by Konrad Zuse, then later sold to Eduard Stiefel.
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IBM announced the 701, their first electric computer and also the first mass produced computer.
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MIT Invents the first use of magnetic-core ram and revolutionary real-time graphics.
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First Transistorized computer. Demonstrated in 1956 at the Massachussetts college of technology.
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In 1960, Digital Equipment Corporation released the PDP-1, the first of many of the PDP computers.
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The CDC6600 was invented by Seymour Cray, and able to perform 3 million calculations a second.
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Created by Hewlett-Packard in 1966, the HP-2115 was revolutionary for businesses.
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The first email, by Ray Tomlinson was sent over to the military for testing, and contained "something like QWERTYUIOP".
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Ralph Baer designed a ping-pong game for his Odyssey gaming console. He was to also design a car racing game, but he didn't have the technology to.
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The Apple II, created by Apple, had a printed motherboard, colors,a keyboard, and mouse.
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The IBM PC, by IBM had a 4.77 MHz Processor and the MS-DOS Operating system.
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Invented by Commodore, the 64 has 64kb of RAM and featured impressive graphics.
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Apple releases Macintosh, a Mouse driven GUI, and WYSIWYG typing. To finish, it was an affordable 2,500 dollars.
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Finnish student Linus Torvalds invents the Linux OS. It became free in 1992 and uses the GNU OS.
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The Mosiac browser is the first graphical access to the internet.
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In 1994, Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo and started as "Jerry's guide to the world wide web".
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Windows XP by Microsoft is created. Using both Business and Personal computer techniques, XP is the top OS for the time
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DDR3 is a format of Random Access Memory that is faster and more efficient.
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Windows 7 Released by Microsoft as a successor to XP and Vista. It is the best-selling OS on the market.
