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History of Computers

By RichardsMS
  • First programmable computer: Z1 1936

    First programmable computer: Z1 1936

  • The first digital computer

    The first digital computer

    Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the ABC started in 1937
  • The first stored program computer

    The first stored program computer

    EDSAC is considered to be the first stored program electronic computer
  • EDSAC

    EDSAC

    computer that ran the first graphical computer game
  • Toshiba

    Toshiba

    Toshiba introduces its first computer, the "TAC" digital computer
  • First RAM Computer

    First RAM Computer

    MIT introduces the Whirlwind machine March 8, 1955
  • The first transistor computer

    The first transistor computer

    The TX-O (Transistorized Experimental computer) and first transistorized computer is demonstrated at MIT
  • NEC

    NEC

    NEC - In 1958 NEC builds its first computer the "NEAC 1101.
    Nippon Electric Company
  • The first minicomputer

    The first minicomputer

    Digital Equipment Corporation released its first of many PDP computers the PDP-1
  • Hewlett Packard

    Hewlett Packard

    Hewlett Packard released its first general computer, the "HP-2115.
  • Intel Processor

    Intel Processor

    Intel's first microprocessor developed; the first microcomputers (PCs) are developed; mainframes and minicomputers are in wide use in business
  • Atari

    Atari

    Pong Game
    The Magnavox Odyssey
  • The first personal computer

    The first personal computer

    Ed Roberts coined the term personal computer when he introduced the Altair 8800
  • The first laptop or portable computer

    The first laptop or portable computer

    The IBM 5100 is the first portable computer
  • The first Apple computer

    The first Apple computer

    Steve Wozniak designed the first Apple known as the Apple I computer
  • The first PC clone

    The first PC clone

    Compaq , the "Compaq Portable"
  • Dell Computers

    Dell Computers

    Dell introduced its first computer, the "Turbo PC."
  • The first multimedia computer

    The first multimedia computer

    Tandy Radio Shack becomes one of the first companies to release a computer based on the MPC standard with its introduction of the M2500 XL/2 and M4020 SX computers