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1951: UNIVAC
Created by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert the UNIVAC was predecessor to the ENIAC which was the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer. The UNIVAC , as the first successful civilian computer, was a key part of the brink of the computer age. -
1952: IBM 701
The IBM 701 created in May of 1952, invented by Jerrier Haddad and Nathaniel Rochester was IBM’s first commercially available scientific computer. This computer became a landmark for the company and the beginning of a line of electronic computers to come. -
1954: FORTRAN
In 1954 John Backus alongside IBM released the first universal computer language. FORTRAN became an easy to use way of understanding coding and computer language. It was such a key component to opening the door into modern computers and is still used to this day. -
1956: Magnetic Disc Storage Arrives
In the 1956 with help of John Lynott and William Goddard, together with Louis Stevens worked alongside IBM it create the IBM RAMAC 305. Which became the worlds first hard disk drive. Which kicked off a long line of floppy discs, hard discs, and zip discs. Which replaced magnetic tape and punch cards effectively. -
1958: Microchip
In 1958 Jack Kilby and Robert created an integrated circuit that became to be known as our microchip. WIthout the microchip it’s hard to see how computers would look today. It made computers vastly smaller and was a huge turning point in computing history.