Quinn Dammann's Computer History

Computer Evolution

Period: Jan 1, 1965 to Jan 1, 1989

UNIX operating system

Jan 1, 1969

mid 1960s, multi tasking computer.

Altair

Jan 1, 1975

1975 The MITS Altair 8800 was a microcomputer

CRAY-1

Jan 1, 1976

1976 The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed, manufactured and marketed by Cray Research.

Apple

Apr 1, 1976

April 1, 1976, Cupertino, CA is when apple was founded

First Electronic Spreadsheat

Jan 1, 1979

VisiCalc was the first computer spreadsheet program. It was released to the public in 1979

Macintosh

Jan 1, 1984

1984, was run by activating pictures with a mouse

Windows

Jan 1, 1985

1985 a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS