History of Computers

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    History of Computers Timeline

  • John Napier

    John Napier

    John Napier invented of set of rods with have become known as "Napier's Bones" that could have been used to perform complex calculations.
  • Blasie Pascal

    Blasie Pascal

    During the 17th century he built a machine that could add up to eight digits.
  • Joseph Maire Jacquard

    Joseph Maire Jacquard

    he made a device that was call the weaving loom that used to punch cards to replicate designs. Revolutionary step towards computers input.
  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage

    He invented the deffence engine that was the first machine that actually did input- evcution- output.
  • Herman Hollerith

    Herman Hollerith

    Invented the punched card calculator for it to count the U.S. census in recorded time
  • Lee De Forest

    Lee De Forest

    He invented the electronic tube. Considered as one of the three technological advances that are key to the development of the computer industry.
  • Great Britian

    Great Britian

    He invented the Colossus which was code breaking.
  • Howard H Aiken

    Howard H Aiken

    He invented the very first programmed controlled calculator
  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

    Ballistic Research Laboratory

    Invented the ENIAC. Its capable of 100,000 calculations per secound.
  • William B Shocley, Walter H Brattain, John Bardeen

    William B Shocley, Walter H Brattain, John Bardeen

    They invented the transistor. The transistor was known as "second generation computers." They use less electricity, give off less heat, smaller and less expensive.
  • Institute for Advance Study

    Institute for Advance Study

    The EDVAC is the first computer to use magnetic tape for storage.
  • Remington Rand

    Remington Rand

    The UNIVACI was the first computer produced in numbers for business
  • Intergrated Circuit

    Intergrated Circuit

    The intergrated Circuit was lead to modern computer "chip" leal to the "third" generation
  • Microprocessors

    Microprocessors

    Microprocessors were capabilities of many thousands of transistors made computers,smaller, faster, cheaper, easier to build
  • Xerox

    Xerox

    the Alto was too expensive and never released.
  • Cray I

    Cray I

    The Clay 1 is 150 million calculations per second
  • Steave Woznick and Steve Jobs

    Steave Woznick and Steve Jobs

    the Apple 2 was the First personal computer
  • Commodore's

    Commodore's

    The PET, C64,CI28,VIC-20 series were affordable to own
  • Intel

    Intel

    An 8086 microprocessor added more paper and speed personal computering
  • Atari

    Atari

    Good look, durable and easy to use.
  • Radio shack, Tandy corp

    Radio shack, Tandy corp

    A TRS-80 is less expensive than apple computers. Some of the most popular personal computers in the 1970's.