Technology History Project

Z3 computer

Jan 1, 1941

computerhistory.orgKonrad Zuse has created the original Z3 computer. Unfortunately, it was destroyed in a bombarding raid in 1943.

Plankalkül

Jan 1, 1942

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The first official programming language created. It was created in 1942 but wasnt developed til 1998.

SAGE

Jan 1, 1958

wiki SAGE is a computer that linked radar stations in the US and Canada. SAGE stands for semi automatic ground environment and only needs 1 megawatt to power its self up.

PDP-8

Mar 22, 1965

wiki The PDP-8 was the first minicomputer created by Digital Equipment Corp. What made this product better than the one before is it's size and speed making it sold to labs, industries and other manufacturing plants.

ARPANET

Oct 29, 1969

wikiArpanet was the first ever network created by the US Department of Defense. They used TCP/IP on it which is still used in todays
computer networks.

The HP-35

Jan 1, 1972

HP-35The first ever scientific calculator is created by Hewlett-Packard. this calculator is the first calculator that can solve logarithmic and trigonometric functions.

The ILLIAC IV

Jan 1, 1972

wiki It was a parallel processing computer made by the Dept. of Defense Adv. Research. The parallel computer had computation speeds of 200 million instructions per second and 300 million operations per second

The Alto

Mar 1, 1974

wiki The Alto was a computer made in the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. It was the first computer with a built in mouse and was given to various other universities.

The creation of apple inc.

Apr 11, 1976

wiki The apple-1 was created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. It was mainly just a Single-board computer that sold in millions.

The apple-2

Jan 1, 1977

c.historyThe second computer made by apple inc. this one was better than the first because it had amazing color graphics and is compatible with floppy disk drive and VisiCalc.

Atari model 400

Nov 22, 1979

https://www.atari.com/history/1972-1984-0 The Atari model 400 was a home computer made for gaming. The games used were clones or original popular games from the 80"S.

C++

Jan 1, 1983

wiki C++ is the grandson of the original programming language C. It was created by Bjarne Stroustrup and is used to allow low level memory manipulation.

The Amiga 1000

Sep 22, 1985

wiki The Amiga 1000 was a home computer with amazing visual and sound quality. It included a floppy disk port, 2 gamepad and mouse ports, keyboard port and a Centronics style parallel port.

JAVA

Jan 1, 1995

<ahref='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)>wiki</a> JAVA is a programming language still used today. It was made to "write once, run anywhere" meaning you can run a java code with out "recompilating."