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The first calculating machine
In 1642, at the age of 18, Pascal invented and build the first digital calculator as a means of helping his father perform tedious tax accounting. Pascal's father was the tax collector for the township of Rouen. -
Th first mechanical computer
In 1812 Charles Babbage conceived what he called The Difference Engine. This solved polynomial equations by the method of differences. Ten years later in 1822 Charles Babbage built a small working model of his Difference Engine for demonstrations. -
The first digital computer
John atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry built the world's first electronic-digital computer at Iowa State University between 1939 and 1942. The Atanasoff-Berry Computer represented several innovations in computing, including a binary system of arithmetic, parallel processing, regenerative memory, and a separation of memory and computing functions. -
The first electronic computer
John Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry built the world's first electronic-digital computer at Iowa State University between 1939 and 1942. The Atanasoff-Berry Computer represented several innovations in computing, including a binary system of arithmetic, parallel processing, regenerative memory, and a separation of memory and computing functions. -
The first programmable computer
Konrad Zuse completed the Z3 in 1941, with recycled materials donated by fellow university staff and students. This was the world's first electronic, fully programmable digital computer based on a binary floating-point number and switching system. Zuse used old movie film to store his programs and data for the Z3, instead of using paper tape or punched cards. Paper was in short supply in Germany during the war. -
The first stored program computer
21 June 1948, when the University of Manchester's Small-Scale Experimental Machine, nicknamed the 'Baby', successfully executed its first program. Designed and built by F. C. Williams and Tom Kilburn*, the Baby kept only 1,024 bits in its main store, but it was the first computer to store a changeable user program in electronic memory and process it at electronic speed. -
The first mini computer
Introduced in 1965, this is usually considered the first true minicomputer because it was the first computer for less than $25,000. It was also much faster than earlier machines such as the PB250. Its the key (though not the first) member of Digital's highly successful PDP-8 family -
The first apple computer
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. -
The first laptop or portable computer
Designed in 1979 by a briton, William Moggridge -
The first personal computer
The IBM PC was introduced in 1981. It was perhaps the first to wear the "PC" label, but that was IBM's only innovation. They sure sold a bunch of them, though -
The first PC
compaq computer corporation announced the compaq porable -
The present day computer
The development of the modern day computer was the result of advances in technologies and man's need to quantify. Papyrus helped early man to record language and numbers. The abacus was one of the first counting machines..
Some of the earlier mechanical counting machines lacked the technology to make the design work. For instance, some had parts made of wood prior to metal manipulation and manufacturing. Which is now changed to the present day computers like the Apple computers ETC. -
The first transistor computer
Bell Alms Labs introduces its first transistor computer. Transistor are faster, Smaller and create less heat than traditional vacuum tubs, making these computers more reliable and effcient. -
The first workstation
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2010 and beyond
I think computers will be floating in the future and we will be able to talk to them to tell them what to do. Instead of having to touch them and use our fingers to control them. -
The first mutimedia computer
A multimedia computer is a computer that is optimized for high multimedia performance, enabling rich multimedia experience.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.