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Charles Babbage conceives of a steam-driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers.
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Designed a punch card system to calculate the 1880 census, accomplishing in three years and saving the government $5 million.
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A professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University. trys to build the first computer without gears, cams, belts or shafts.
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design a computer that can solve 29 equations simultaneously, marks the first time a computer can store memory on its own memory.
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Two University of Pennsylvania professors build the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC). Considered the grandfather of digital computers, it fills a 20 foot by 40 foot room and has 18,000 vacuum tubes.
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Mauchly and Presper leave the University of Pennsylvania and receive funding from the Census Bureau to build the UNIVAC, the first commercial computer for business and government applications.
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Developed the first computer language, which eventually becomes known as COBOL.
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son of IBM CEO Thomas Johnson Watson, Sr., conceives the IBM 701 EDPM to help the United Nations keep tabs on Korea during the war.
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The FORTRAN programming language is born.
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unveil the integrated circuit, known as the computer chip.
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shows a prototype of the modern computer, with a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI). This marks the evolution of the computer from a specialized machine for scientists and mathematicians to technology that is more accessible to the general public.
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Newly formed Intel unveils the Intel 1103, the first Dynamic Access Memory (DRAM) chip.
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leads a team of IBM engineers who invent the “floppy disk,” allowing data to be shared among computers.
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a member of the research staff for Xerox, develops Ethernet for connecting multiple computers and other hardware.
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Becomes the first commercially available portable computer.
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Start Apple Computers on April Fool’s Day and roll out the Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board.
