Hidtory of technology

Programming language: Pascal

1970

is an imperative and procedural programming language, designed by Niklaus Wirth as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. It is named in honour of the French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal.

1 Floppy

1972

The first commercial floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, were 8 inches (200 mm) in diameter; they became commercially available in 1971 as a component of IBM products and then were sold separately beginning in 1972 by Memorex and others.

CRAY I

1972

Was a supercomputer designed, manufactured and marketed by Cray Research. Announced in 1975, the first Cray-1 system was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976. Eventually, over 100 Cray-1's were sold, making it one of the most successful supercomputers in history.

ARPANET protocols

1973

In 1973, a transatlantic satellite link connected the Norwegian Seismic Array (NORSAR) to the ARPANET, making Norway the first country outside the US to be connected to the network. At about the same time a terrestrial circuit added a London IMP. This connectivity later evolved into the SATNET.

Altair 8800

1975

The MITS Altair 8800 was a microcomputer designed in 1974, based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest in this equipment grew rapidly after it was featured on the cover of January 1975, from Popular Electronics magazine, with hundreds of kits for put together for fans, and were surprised to sell that amount ten times only in the first month.

Microsoft

1975

Paul Allen was always in the shadow of Bill Gates. However, as Gates himself has acknowledged, he was a true visionary and when in the 1970s, people still depended on the typewriter, Allen already knew which path they should follow.

Apple Computer, Inc

1976

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

Apple II

1977

The Apple II family of computers was the first series of mass-produced microcomputers made by the Apple Computer company between June 5, 1977 and the mid-1980s. The Apple II had an 8-bit architecture based on the 6502 processor. It was completely different from the later Apple Macintosh models.Its predecessor was the Apple I, a machine built by hand and sold to fans. It was never produced in large numbers, but it started many of the features that would make Apple II a success.

IBM PC compatible

1980

IBM PC or IBM PC compatible is a type of computer similar to IBM PC, IBM Personal Computer XT and IBM Personal Computer / AT.

1 laser printer

1980

Invented by Gary Starkweather during the 1973 decade and first marketed in 1977.1 the printing device consists of a photoconductor drum attached to a toner container and a laser beam that is modulated and projected through a specular disc towards The photoconductor drum

1 graphics card

1980

Standards such as MDA, CGA, HGC, Tandy, PGC, EGA, VGA, MCGA, 8514 or XGA were introduced from 1982 to 1990 and supported by a variety of hardware manufacturers.
3dfx Interactive was one of the first companies to develop a GPU with 3D acceleration (with the Voodoo series) and the first to develop a graphical chipset dedicated to 3D, but without 2D support (which therefore required the presence of a 2D card to work).

8086=1er PC with microprocessor Intel

1981

The Intel 8086 and the Intel 8088 (i8086, officially called iAPX 86, and i8088) are the first 16-bit microprocessors designed by Intel. They were the beginning and the first members of the x86 architecture.

Operative sistem MS-DOS

1981

MS-DOS (acronym for MicroSoft Disk Operating System, Microsoft Disk Operating System) was the most popularly known member of the Microsoft DOS operating system family, and the main personal computer system compatible with IBM PC in the 1980s and the mid-1990s, until it was gradually replaced by operating systems that offered a graphical user interface, in particular by several generations of Microsoft Windows

Graphic operative sistem Windows 1.0

1981

Windows 1.0 was the first 16-bit graphic operating system developed by Microsoft and launched on November 20, 1985, being one of the first graphic systems designed. It was Microsoft's first attempt to implement a massive operating environment with a graphical user interface on the PC platform. Windows 1.01 was the first version of this product. It cost $ 99 and a computer with a minimum of 256 kb of RAM, a graphics card and two floppy disk drives was required

Programation lenguage: Basic

1981

BBC BASIC is a programming language, developed in 1981 as a native programming language for the Acorn BBC Micro, a home computer with MOS Technology 6502 CPU, mainly by Sophie Wilson. It is an adaptation of the BASIC language for the BBC Computer Knowledge Project in the United Kingdom.The BBC BASIC is based on the old Atom BASIC (for Acorn Atom), expanded the traditional BASIC with named procedures and functions, REPEAT-UNTIL loops, and IF-THEN-ELSE structures inspired by COMAL.

1ª definition of Internet

1981

In 1979 ARPA created the first commission of control of the Internet configuration and in 1981 the TCP / IP protocol (Transfer Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) was defined and ARPANET adopted it as standard in 1982, replacing NCP. TCP / IP had been adopted as a standard by the US military.

1 computer with graphical interface

1983

The Apple Lisa was a computer designed and manufactured by Apple Computer in the early 1980s and the second to have a graphical user interface. Despite not having commercial success at the time and disappearing from the market a few years after its launch, it was a very advanced microcomputer for its time and pioneer in integrating a set of technological advances at the hardware and software level that ended up becoming standards from the computer industry, such as mouse.

Programation lenguages: C++ and Java

1983

C ++ is a programming language designed in 1979 by Bjarne Stroustrup. The intention of its creation was to extend to the programming language C mechanisms that allow the manipulation of objects.
Java is a programming language and computer platform first commercialized in 1995 by Sun Microsystems. There are many applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed and more are created every day. Java is fast, safe and reliable.

CD-Rom

1984

A CD-ROM (acronym for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory) is a compact disc with which laser beams are used to read information in digital format.

1 sound card

1989

The Sound Blaster family of sound cards has for many years been the de facto standard for audio from IBM compatible PCs, before PC audio became common. The creator of Sound Blaster is a Singapore company called Creative Technology, also known by the name of its satellite company in the United States, Creative Labs.

WWW

1991

World Wide Web.
Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee, known as Tim Berners-Lee, is a British computer scientist, known for being the father of the World Wide Web. He established the first communication between a client and a server using the HTTP protocol in November 1989. In October 1994 he founded the World Wide Web Consortium based at MIT, to monitor and standardize the development of technologies on those that the Web is based and that allow the operation of the Internet.

1er Pentium microprocesor

1993

Pentium was known by its code name P54C. It was marketed at speeds between 60 and 200 MHz, with bus speed of 50, 60 and 66 MHz. Versions that included MMX instructions not only gave the user better handling of multimedia applications, such as reading DVD movies They were offered at speeds of up to 233 MHz, including a 200 MHz version and the most basic one provided about 166 MHz of clock.