Hardware History Timeline

  • Nintendo

    Fusajiro Yamauchi in 1889
  • Antanasoff-Berry-Computer

    Clifford Berry and John Vincent Antanasoff in 1937
  • Period: to

    first generation

  • E-books

    Thomas Aquiness late 1940s
  • Game consoles

    Ralph H. Baer 1950
  • Period: to

    second generation

  • DEC PDP-8 (Digital Equipment Corporation)

    Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson 1960
  • Period: to

    third generation

  • Minicomputer

    Kenneth olsen 1965
  • Period: to

    fourth generation

  • Digital camera

    Steven Sasson in 1974
  • Microcomputer

    Ed Roberts 1975
  • Apple computer

    inventor:Steve wozniack jobs in 1976
  • IBM PC (International Business Machines personal computer)

    inventor:Don Estridge 1981
  • Personal computer

    Philip Don Estridge 1981
  • Laptop

    Adam Osborne 1981
  • Kodak DCS (Digital Camera System 100)

    Kodak 1988
  • Web cam

    1991 by the Cambridge University science department
  • Smartphones

    1992 bellsouth
  • Period: to

    fifth generation