timeline of computers

first computer

Jan 1, 1936

Charles Babbage invents the first programmable computer in 1936

first computer that can calculate multiple problems at a time

1941

Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, design a computer that can calculate 29 problems at a time

first computer chip

1958

Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce make the first computer chip (circuit)

first floppy disk

1971

alan shugert leads a team of IBM engineers to create the floppy disk

first personal computer

Jan 1, 1975

first personal computer was made

first laptop

1976

Alan Kay invented the first laptop

First apple laptop

1983

apple created their first laptop