Computer

Rise of the Computer

By gchead7891

  • first thought of

    first thought of
    Charles Babbage first proposed and began developing the Difference Engine, the first automatic computing machine. It was able to mildy compute numbers and make hard copies of them.

  • A Second Try

    A Second Try
    in 1837 Charles Babbage proposed the first general mechanical computer, the Analytical Engine. The Analytical Engine contained an Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), basic flow control, and integrated memory and is the first general-purpose computer concept. Unfortunately, because of funding issues this computer was also never built while Charles Babbage's was alive.

  • First Programmable Computer

    First Programmable Computer
    The Z1, created by Germany's Konrad Zuse, is considered to be the first electro-mechanical binary programmable (modern) computer and really the first functional computer.

  • The First Digital Computer

    The First Digital Computer
    Short for Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the ABC started being developed by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry in Iowa State College (now Iowa State University). The ABC was an electrical computer that used vacuum tubes for digital computation including binary math and Boolean logic and had no CPU.

  • First PC

    First PC
    IBM publicly introduced the 701, its first electric computer and first mass produced computer. Later IBM introduced its first personal computer called the IBM PC in 1981.

  • First Multimedia Computer

    First Multimedia Computer
    Tandy Radio Shack becomes one of the first companies to release a computer based on the MPC standard with its introduction of the M2500 XL/2 and M4020 SX computers.