History of Computers By josh.ourslerhhs Jan 1, 1939 Hewlett Packard is founded Jan 1, 1948 First computer program run on a computer Jan 1, 1954 IBM 650 magnetic drum calcuartor is introduced Jan 1, 1961 Minuteman I missiel guidence computer developed Jan 1, 1976 Steve Wozniak completes Apple-1 Jan 1, 1982 Sun Microsystems is founded Jan 1, 1991 Apple PowerBook series of laptop is introduced Jan 1, 2005 NASA Ames Research Center supercomputer Columbia Jan 1, 2012 Raspberry Pi, a credit card sized computer board is released to encourage people to explore computers