Programming History

Mundotheque

Oct 11, 1930

Pual Otlet creates the mundotheque or a mult-media workstation.

John Von Nueman

Apr 26, 1945

Wrote a paper outlining the arichteture of a storage-program computer, including electronic storage of programming information and data.

Compatible Time-Sharing System

Nov 17, 1962

MIT's Computation Center under the direction of Ferdnando Corbato develope the Compatible Time-Sharing System allowing multiple users on one computer.

CDC 6600

May 4, 1964

CDC or Control Data Corperation 6600 is created and it can run 3 million instructions per minute, three times faster than its competitor the IBM 7030

Nova Minicomputer

Feb 29, 1968

Data General designs the Nova minicomputer, it had 32 KB of memory and went for about $8,000 designed by Ed de Castro.

CP/M

Aug 2, 1976

Gary Kildall and his wife the first commercially succesful operating system for microcomputers, allowing one version of a program to be run on a variety of computers built around an eight-bit microprocessors.

Apple Lisa

Oct 18, 1983

Apple releases the Lisa computer which had the first commercial pesonal computer with a graphical user interface or GUI.

Mathematica

May 8, 1988

British scientist Stephen Wolfram creats mathematica a mathematical programming language, it was a compete ecosytem for computing that allowed symbolic entry of mathematical function and equations.

Alpha Chip

Jan 13, 1992

DEC annouces Alpha chip architecture which has a 64-bit reduced instruction set omputer microprocessor and it replacede the 32-bit VAX architecture.

Google

Oct 9, 2004

Google is the first mejaor web company to float a publicly traded stock since the go-go days of the dot-com boom.

Adobe Cloud

Jun 5, 2011

The Adobe Creative Cloud is announced as a subscription and cloud-based model of distribution for its major software products.