PC development

By levid

  • Point-Contact Transistor Amplifier

    William Shockley, Walter Brattain, and John Bardeen reveal their point-contact transistor amplifier.

  • IBM Lawsuit

    IBM has a complaint and this starts a trial that will last for 30 years.

  • First Integrated Circuit

    Jack Kilby from TI (Texas Instruments), demonstartes the world's first integrated circuit.

  • first minicomputer

    Digital Equipment introduces the first minicomputer, the PDP-1.

  • Bisic programming reveal

    John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop the BASIC programming language at Dartmouth College

  • The first 4 bit microprocesor

    Intel engineers turn a calculator chip design into the first commercial 4 bit CPU, the 4004 microprocessor.

  • Microsoft is founded

    Bill Gates and Paul Allen implement BASIC for the Altair, and found Microsoft.