Keandrea Sykes - Computer History

Charles Babbage

Dec 26, 1791

Orginated the concept of a "programmable computer" "Father of the computer"

Herman Hollerith

Nov 17, 1860

Developed a mechanical tabulator based on punch cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data.

Jack Kilby

Nov 8, 1923

An electrical engineer, inventor on the handheld calculator.

Z1 Computer

Sep 3, 1928

First freely programmable computer in the world. Orginal name Z1 for ZerussuchsModell1

1st Generation Computer

Sep 3, 1946

Used vacuum tubes as basic components for memory

Eniac

Sep 3, 1946

Speed up to 1000 timnes of electro mechanical machines. The first electronic general purpose computer.

Univac

Sep 3, 1951

First general purpose computer for commercial use. Operated on magnetic tape

2nd Generation Computers

Sep 3, 1954

The transulator replaced the vacuum tape.

Steve Jobs

Feb 24, 1955

CEO of Apple and is known as the "Father of the Digital Revolution"

Bill Gates

Oct 28, 1955

Cheif executive of Microsoft and is the second richest person in the world.

3rd Generation Computers

Sep 3, 1964

Transistors were miniaturized and picked on silicon chips which increased speed and efficiency.

BASIC

Sep 3, 1964

Used to create financial, statistical, & engineering programs. The designers of the language decided to make the computer free of charge so the language would be widdespread.

4th Generation Computers

Sep 3, 1971

The 4004 chip, CPU & memory to the input and output are now ona single chip.

Altair Computer

Sep 3, 1975

Only 256 bytes of memory, no keyboard or monitor. It was offered as a complete kit for $397.

Apple II

Sep 3, 1977

Built by Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak. One of the most highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products.

Wordstar

Sep 3, 1980

Word processor application that had a dominant market share.

Osborne Computer

Sep 3, 1981

5 inch screen and the average cost was $1,795. It sold about 11,000 Osborne's in the first 8 months.

VisiCaic

Sep 3, 1983

The first spreedsheet program orginally released for Apple II.

Pagemaker

Sep 3, 1985

One of the first desktop publishing programs.

Introduction of the GUI

Sep 3, 1989

Allowed users to interact with the computer more easily.

Excel

Sep 3, 1993

A spreedsheet application that features graphing, tools, and calculations.

Netscape

Sep 3, 1994

U.S computer service company, known for its web browser.

Mosaic

Sep 3, 2014

Web browser created with popularizing the world wide web. First browser to display images inline with text,