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History of Computers

  • First Comsumer Computer is Made

    First Comsumer Computer is Made
    IBM creates a computer for "everyone". This becomes known as "the first comsumer computer".
  • First Apple Macintosh Home Affordable Computer

    First Apple Macintosh Home Affordable Computer
    Life becomes more affordable with this computer. This one was one of the first with a GUI.
  • The Amiga

    The Amiga
    The Amiga 1000 is released. Commodore’s Amiga 1000 sold for $1,295 dollars (without monitor) . This computer had audio and video capailities far above most home computers.
  • The Motorola Unveil

    The Motorola Unveil
    Motorola unveiled the 68030 microprocessor. This stepped up the processing game.
  • NewTek

    NewTek
    Video Toaster is introduced by NewTek. This was used to broadcast television shows.
  • Linus Torvalds

    Linus Torvalds
    Designed by Finnish university student Linus Torvalds, Linux was released to several Usenet newsgroups on September 17th, 1991. He widened the software world.
  • The Graphics

    The Graphics
    Terminator 2 came out, this was the most exspensive movie made at this time. This movie cost over 100 million dollars, due to the computer graphics.
  • The Pentium

    The Pentium
    The Pentium microprocessor is released. This was the best microprocesser created by Intel of the time.
  • Netscape

    Netscape
    Netscape Communications Corporation is founded. The program was only for Windows 3.1 or later.
  • Where we are now

    Where we are now
    As you can see we have come so far, from thousands of codes that were needed to enter in before you could use the computer, to smart phones, tablets, gaint tv's, and even bigger computer. We have advanced so very much.