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WORKS CITED
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German Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3
The Z3 was the world first fully programmable computer a Turing-complete calculation machine -
The US recives the UNIVAC
The UNIVAC was considered to be the first computer to be able to store memory and run programs -
IBM introduces the 701 to the public
The 701 is IBM's first electric computer and first mass produced computer. -
The TX-O demonstrated
the first transistorized computer is demonstrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. -
The first integrated circuits begin being sold
sold for $120.00 and are chosen to be used on the Gemini spacecraft. -
ASCII is develouped
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is developed to standardize data exchange among computers. -
the first long distant dial-up connection
Lawrence G. Roberts with MIT performs the first long distant dial-up connection between a TX-2 computer n Massachusetts and a Q-32 in California. -
UCLA is first internet node
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Intel releases its first product
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the first network switch
and the first piece of network equipment is sent to UCLA. -
First message on ARPANET sent
A student attempts to send "LOGIN" but the system crashes after "LO" -
INTEL introduces first microprocceser
Intel with the help of Ted Hoff introduces the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004 on November 15, 1971. -
Steve Wozniak designs the first Apple
the Apple I computer. later Wozniak and Steve Jobs co-found Apple Computers on April Fools day. -
IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create DOS
IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC, this operating system is called DOS -
Tim Berners-Lee proposes Hypertext
Hypertext is the start of the Internet as we know it today. -
Y2K
Computers continue to work and the world doesn't come to an end on January 1, 2000 as some feared might happen because of the year 2000 bug.
