History Of Computing

By 15hnicole

  • The First Computer

    The first computer is freely programmable.

  • Hewlett-Packard

    This was founded by David Packard and Bill Hewlett in Palo Alto, California garage.

  • The Complex Number Calculator

    You can calculate using a teletype connected via special telephone lines.

  • Z3 Computer

    This computer is built early and consists of a 22-bit word length.

  • The Atanasoff-Berry Computer

    The ABC was at the center of a patent dispute relating to the invention of the computer.

  • Project Whirlwind begins

    During World War II, the U.S. Navy approached the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) about building a flight simulator to train bomber crews.

  • Harvard Mark-1 is completed

    The Mark-1 was used to produce mathematical tables but was soon superseded by stored program computers.

  • John Von Neumann

    He wrote "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" in which he outlined the architecture of a stored-program computer.

  • ENIAC

    A machine built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert that improved by 1,000 times on the speed of its contemporaries.

  • IBM's

    IBM´s Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator computed scientific data in public display near the company´s Manhattan headquarters