History Of Computers Timeline

  • Jan 1, 1150

    Abacus

    Also called the counting frame, is a calculating tool used Centuries before the adoption of the modern numeral system
  • Analytical Engine

    Analytical Engine
    a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by english mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage.
  • Holes in Cards

    Holes in Cards
    A piece of stiff paper that contained either commands for controlling automated machinery or data for data processing applications
  • Von Nuemann architecture

    Von Nuemann architecture
    a computer architecture based on that described in 1945 by the mathematician and physicist John Von Neumann
  • ENIAC

    (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was then first electronic general purpose computer
  • UNIVAC

    An electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of Eckert-Mauchly computer corporation
  • High level programming language

    a programming language that enables a programmer that are more or less independent of a particular type of computer
  • UNIX

    UNIX
    a family of multitasking, multi user computer operating systems
  • Altair

    is a microcomputer designed in 1975 based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue
  • PC

    a Personal computer
  • Apple

    Apple
    an, american born, multinational technology company
  • CRAY-1

    CRAY-1
    a supercomputer designed, manufactured and marketed by Cray Research, went on to become one of the best known and most successful supercomputers in history
  • Visicalc

    the first spreadsheet computer program for PC’s
  • Macintosh

    Macintosh
    The Macintosh is a PC Designed, Developed, and Marketed by Apple Inc.Steve Jobs Introduced the Original macintosh computer
  • Microsoft Windows

    Microsoft Windows
    A meta-family of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft