Important Events in the History of Computers

By Dru44

  • IBM 405 Alphabetical Accounting Machine introduced

  • Alan Turing invented the principle of the modern computer

  • Zuse Z1 built by Konrad Zuse

  • Hewlett Packard Founded

  • Zuse Z3 machine completed

  • The Atanasoff-Berry Computer is completed

  • The first COLOSSUS code-cracking machine, became operational

  • Zuse sold first Z4 computer

  • First keyboard used to input data

  • IBM brings out the Magnetic Disk Memory

  • Jack Kilby created the first integrated circuit

  • The first commercial Modem manufactured

  • Douglas Engelbart Invents the Mouse

  • Moore's Law coined

  • Intel Launches the First Microprocessor - The 4004

  • First email sent

  • The Magnavox Odyssey, the first video game console, is released

  • Microsoft Founded

  • The first ‘portable computer is launched

  • Microsoft Introduced 2-button Mouse

  • Microsoft Windows Launched

  • Internet freed from Government control