History of the Personal Computer and Internet

By horinejc

  • Charles Cabbage Conceives Calculating Machine

    Charles Cabbage Conceives Calculating Machine
    Charles CabbageFunded by the English government, a mathmatician develops the first computer that can calculate tables of numbers

  • Herman Hollerith Develops a Punch Card System

    Herman Hollerith Develops a Punch Card System
    Herman HollerithHerman Hollerith developed a hole punch machine that calculates the U.S census. This discovey would eventually lead to IBM

  • J.V Atanasoff; First Attempt at a Computer

    J.V Atanasoff; First Attempt at a Computer
    J.V Atansoff's ComputerA mathamatic professor, J.V Atanasoff, attempts to create the first computer with gears, cams, belts, and shafts

  • The Altair 8800

    The Altair 8800
    Altair 8800
    The Altair 8800 has no keyboard or monitor, it is used by a series of switches and codes (1 and 0).

  • Steve and Steve form Apple Computer

    Steve and Steve form Apple Computer
    Apple History Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak form Apple Computer

  • The Apple II

    The Apple II
    The Apple IIThe apple 2 consisted of color monitor, sound, game paddles. it had 4KB of RAM and had a ROM. Floppy disk loaded games

  • Commodore PET

    Commodore PET
    Commodore PETThe Commodore PET was aimed at the business market. It did very well in Europe

  • TRS-80

    TRS-80
    Trs-80 Introduced in by Radio Shack with a monochrome display. it had 4kb of RAM and a keyboard. Popular with consumers.

  • Osbourne

    Osbourne
    OsbourneFirst portable computer. weighing a whopping 25 pounds with a 5 inch screen. It also had 64KB of RAM. Already preinstalled with spreadsheet and word software.

  • IBM PC (5150)

    IBM PC (5150)Marketed to both consumers and business. 64KB to 256KB of RAM. accessible to Floppy disk.