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Computer Timeline

By rcrabb15

  • Hewlett-Packard is Founded

    Hewlett-Packard is Founded
    David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which rapidly becomes a popular piece of test equipment for engineers.

  • IBM´s Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator computed scientific data

    IBM´s Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator computed scientific data
    Before its decommissioning in 1952, the SSEC produced the moon-position tables used for plotting the course of the 1969 Apollo flight to the moon.

  • MIT started using Magnitic Memory

    MIT started using Magnitic Memory
    Jay Forrester installed magnetic core memory on the Whirlwind computer. This made the computers faster, more reliable, and overall better.

  • IBM announced the System/360

    IBM announced the System/360
    This was family of six mutually compatible computers and 40 peripherals that could work together. This was important at the time because there were not many computers that could work together at the time.

  • University of Illinois builsd a large parallel processing computer

    University of Illinois builsd a large parallel processing computer
    The first large scale array computer, the ILLIAC IV achieved a computation speed of 200 million instructions per second, about 300 million operations per second, and 1 billion bits per second of I O transfer using unique combination of parallel architecture and the pipe-lining structure of its 64 processing elements.

  • Apple created the Apple 2

    Apple created the Apple 2
    The Apple II became an instant success when released in 1977 with its printed circuit motherboard, switching power supply, keyboard, case assembly, manual, game paddles, A/C powercord, and cassette tape with the computer game. Able to hook up to color TV and provide amazing graphics at the time,

  • IBM introduced its PS/2 Machines

    IBM introduced its PS/2 Machines
    IBM introduced its PS/2 machines, which made the 3 1/2-inch floppy disk drive and video graphics array standard for IBM computers. This was a fast and amazing computer at the time.

  • Creative Labs realeses multi-media Upgrade Kit

    Creative Labs realeses multi-media Upgrade Kit
    Includes a CD-ROM drive, the SoundBlaster Pro sound card, a MIDI kit and a variety of software applications. The kit allows IBM compatible users to obtain all tools needed to meet the MPC standards. They made this so to upgrade and improve MPC.

  • Microsoft Windows 2000 was Released

    Microsoft Windows 2000 was Released
    Microsoft Windows 2000 was released February 17, 2000. This sped up computers and made them work more efficient.

  • Apple announces Boot Camp

    Apple announces Boot Camp
    Thisl allows users to run Windows XP on their computers. this makes the apple computers faster and better, and also makes there buyers happier.