Wyatt History of the Computer

By 18fitzpatrickwy

  • Z1 Computer

    First freely programmable computer.

  • ABC Computer

    World's first electronic digital computer at Iowa state University.

  • Harvard Mark 1 Computer.

    A 5 ton device that contained 760,000 separate pieces.

  • ENIAC 1 Computer.

    The American military sponsored their research, Because they needed a computer for calculating artillery firing tables.

  • UNIVAC Computer.

    First commercial computer and able to pick presidential winners.

  • The Integrated Circuit

    otherwise known as the chip.

  • Intel 1103 Computer memory

    The world's first available dynamic RAM.

  • The Floppy Disk

    Nicknamed the floppy for its flexibility.

  • Wordstar Software

    Word processors.

  • IBM PC Home Computer

    From an Acorn grows a personal computer revolution.

  • Apple introduces the Lisa computer

    Lisa is the first commercial personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI).

  • Acorn Archimedes is released.

    Acorn's ARM RISC microprocessor is first used in the company's Archimedes computer system.

  • IBM 9345 hard disk drive

    IBM's 9345 hard disk drive is introduced. Codenamed "Sawmill," it was the first hard disk drive to use magneto-resistive heads.

  • Compact flash

    When CompactFlash is introduced by SanDisk, it is quickly adopted and becomes the preferred memory storage option in many consumer as well as professional electronic devices.

  • Bebox is released

    Be, founded by former Apple executive Jean Louis Gassée and a number of former Apple, NeXT and SUN employees, releases their only product – the BeBox.

  • Nvidia releases the GeForce 256

    Video applications for personal computers drive demand for increased graphical performance.