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First Calculating Machine
The adding machine was invented by a nineteen-year-old French boy named Blaise Pascal way back in the year 1642. Blaise made it to help his father in his work. -
Mechanical Computers
It had 25,000 parts and weighed 15 tons! -
Programmable Computer
Zuse completes Z3, world's first fully functional programmable computer. -
Electronic computers
Colossus, a British computer used for code-breaking, is operational by December of 1943 -
Digital Computers
The ENIAC was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania. -
Transistor Computer
The University of Manchester's experimental Transistor Computer was first operational in November 1953 and it is widely believed to be the first transistor computer to come into operation anywhere in the world -
Minicomputer
The minicomputer first hit the market in 1960 with Digital Equipment's PDP-1, which sold for $120,000. -
Micro Computers
Intel introduces the 8008, the first 8-bit microprocessor. -
Personal Computer
The first personal computers, introduced in 1975, came as kits. And they were named PC's.The PC came with one or two 160k floppy disk drives and an optional color monitor. The price tag started at $1,565, which would be nearly $4,000 today. -
Apple
On April Fool's Day, 1976, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs released the Apple I computer and started Apple Computers. The Apple I was the first with a single circuit board used in a computer. -
Laptop/Portable computers
Designed in 1979 by a Briton, William Moggridge, for Grid Systems Corporation, the Grid Compass was one fifth the weight of any model equivalent in performance and was used by NASA on the space shuttle program in the early 1980's. A 340K byte bubble memory lap-top computer with die-cast magnesium case and folding electroluminescent graphics display screen. -
PC
August 12, 1981, IBM released their new computer, re-named the IBM PC. The "PC" stood for "personal computer" -
Workstation
It has to be said that in 1987 when Sun introduced the first SPARC based computer -
Multimedia
In 1992 Tandy Radio Shack becomes one of the first companies to release a computer based on the MPC standard with its introduction of the M2500 XL/2 and M4020 SX computers. -
Prersent Day Computers
All present-day computers for the consumer market include at least 2 USB ports. -
Future computers
computers will be made as holograms and can just be pulled out of your pocket.
