Major Events and People in the History of Computers

  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage

    designed the first automatic calculator
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  • Herman Hollerith

    Herman Hollerith

    Was the first to take Jacuqurd's Punch card concept and apply it to his machine
  • Z1 Computer

    Z1 Computer

    Is thoughtto be the first computer include certain features intergral to todays system
  • Eniac

    Eniac

    Developed to calculate the setting used for Weapons.
  • Importance of Basic

    Importance of Basic

    It Means Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code .Language that beginning programing that students could learn easily.
  • First Generation Computers

    First Generation Computers

    The UNIVAC and regular computers where considered fist generartion.
  • Univac

    Univac

    First commercially successful electronic ditigal computer.
  • Second Generation Computers

    Second Generation Computers

    Transistors replaced the bulky vaccum tubes. it was almost used for everything.
  • Third generation Computers

    Third generation Computers

    The computers in this early intergrated circuit.
  • Jack Kilby

    Jack Kilby

    While Working with Texas Instruments . he invented the worlds first intergrated circuit.
  • Fourth Generation

    Fourth Generation

    Computers that used a mircoprocesser chip.
  • Birth of GUI

    A few years before Apple Launched its personal computer photocopier.
  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs

    He and Steve Wozniak form apple together.
  • Altair Computer

    Altair Computer

    Monochromac display
    Cicuitry Hidden under the keyboard .
    sold 10,000 the first month
  • Wordstar

    Wordstar

    First Word Processing application.
  • Visicalc

    Visicalc

    First electronic spreadsheet application.
  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates

    He worked at microsoft to write an OS program for the IBM PC
  • Osbourne

    Osbourne

    First Portable computer that weighted in 24.5 pounds
  • Apple 2

    Apple 2

    Marketed to bussinesses and consumers
    Floppy disks drives optional
    64 KB to 256 KB Of RAM
  • Page Maker

    Page Maker

    The first Desktop Publishing software .
  • Excel

    Excel

    One of the first spreadsheet to use a graphical user interface.
  • Mosaic

    Mosaic

    This Broswer allowed users to view multimedia on the web causing internet traffic to increase by nearly 350%
  • Netscape

    Netscape

    A team of developers launched netscape. which became a predominate player in broswer software.