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in 1939 The Hewlt-Packard computer is made in a garage in California. Walt Dinsey ordered 8 of the 200B for his movie "Fantasia” in 1940 to make the sounds
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in 1940 the Complex Number Calculatior is completed. Bell Telephone Laboratories completed this calculator, designed by researcher George Stibitz.
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in 1954 The IBM 650 magnetic drum calculator established itself as the first mass-produced computer
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in 1959 IBM´s 7000 series mainframes were the company´s first transistorized computers at the top of the computers
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in 1962 The LINC (Laboratory Instrumentation Computer) offered the first real time laboratory data processing. It was designed by Wesley Clark at Lincoln Laboratories
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in 1964 the CDC's 6600 supercomputer was designed by Seymour Cray it could perform up to 3 million instructions per second. The 6600 retained the distinction of being the worlds fastest computer in the world until it got surpassed by its successor, the CDC 7600, in 1968.
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Hewlett-Packard announced the HP-35 as "a fast, extremely accurate electronic slide rule" it had a soild-state memory like a computers
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In 1976 Steve Wozniak designed the Apple I a single-board computer the first Apple computer
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Apple computer launched the Macintosh the first successful mouse-driven computer with a graphic user interface,
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Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, who left Apple to form his own company, unveiled the NeXT. It failed but is recognized as a important innovation.
