Timeline: 2015 History fair

Sep 11, 1940

The Complex Number Calculator (CNC) is completed

This was designed by scientist George Stibitz and it was one of the first remote accessing computers. It would send information to a computer in New York which would calculate the problem and then send it back to the CNC

Feb 5, 1944

First Colossus operational at Bletchley Park

This machine was used to break the Lorenz ciphers used by the Nazis. This reduced the decryption time from weeks to hours.

Jan 1, 1950

ERA 1101 introduced

The ERA 1101 was one of the first commercially produced computers. While also being the first commercially produced computer, it also was used to break Japanese codes.

Jan 26, 1951

Ferranti Mark I sold

The Ferranti Mark 1 was the first commercially available general purpose computer on the market. Due to loss of funding it never sold well.

Jun 10, 1952

IAS computer operational

This computer was built to both store data and instructions. Made for scientific calculations it worked on calculations for the US atomic weapons program.

Mar 27, 1953

IBM ships its Model 701

The Model 701 also known as the Defense Calculator was used by research laboratories, aircraft companies, and the federal government. This was IBM's entry into the computer market.

Nov 1, 1960

DEC PDP-1 introduced

The PDP-1 sparked hacker culture who came to make the first computer game "SpaceWar!".

Jan 1, 1964

CDC 6600 supercomputer introduced

This super computer was capable of performing up to 3 million instructions per second. It was so meta that it had 10 mini computers inside the computer so that it could run faster.