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  Charles babbage creates the first calculating engine.
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  Herman Hollerith developed a method for machines to to record and store information onto punch cards to be used for the US census. He later formed the company we know as IBM today.
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  Company now known as IBM on is incorporated June 15, 1911 in the state of New York as the Computing - Tabulating - Recording Company (C-T-R), a consolidation of the Computing Scale Company, and The International Time Recording Company.
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  The company no known as Hewlett Packard creates its first product the HP 200A.
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  Hewlett Packard is found by William Hewlett and David Packard. The name is decided on the flip of a coin toss.
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  xerox is trademarked. formally knows as The Haloid Company, inacted in 1906
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  1971 Steve Wozniak and Bill Fernandez develop a computer called the Cream Soda Computer.
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  Steve Wozniak designs the first Apple, the Apple I computer in 1976, later Wozniak and Steve Jobs co-found Apple Computers on April Fools day.
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  Microsoft Windows was announced November, 1983