history of computers timeline | Timetoast Timelines

Jan 20, 1936

Z-1 computer created

first freely progammed computer
Jan 20, 1942

ABC computer created
Oct 20, 1944

Harvard Mark 1
Oct 24, 1946

ENIAC 1 computer
Oct 24, 1947

The Transistor
Oct 24, 1948

Manchester Baby Computer & the Williams Tube
Oct 24, 1951

UNIVAC computer
Oct 24, 1953

IDM 701 EDPM
Oct 24, 1954

FORTRAN programming language
Oct 24, 1955

ERMA & MICR
Oct 24, 1958

Integrated Circuit
Oct 25, 1962

Spacewar computer game
Oct 25, 1964

computer mouse & windows
Oct 25, 1969

ARPAnet
Oct 25, 1970

Intel 1103 computer memory
Oct 25, 1971

Intel 4004 computer microprocessor
Oct 25, 1971

the "Floppy" disk
Oct 25, 1973

The Ethernet
Oct 25, 1974

Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 computers created
Oct 25, 1976

Apple I,II & TRS-80 & Commodore pet computers created
Oct 25, 1978

VisaCalc spreadsheet software
Oct 25, 1979

Wordstar
Oct 25, 1981

IBM PC- Home computer
Oct 25, 1981

MS-DOS computer operating system
Oct 25, 1983

Apple Lisa computer
Oct 25, 1984

Apple Macintosh
Oct 25, 1985

Microsoft Windows