Story of Computers

By colton thomas

  • Charles Babbage

    invinted in-depth engines
  • Period: to

    History Timeline

  • Herman Hollerith

    created hollerith tabulating machine

  • Z1 Computer

    first computer to have interferal features

  • Eniac

    Government machine used to keep track of weaponary

  • 2nd Generation computers

    More advanced but still were made very large

  • Univac

    First commerically successful electroinc digital computer

  • Jack Kibly

    Created first intergrated circuits

  • 3rd Generation Computers

    computers catogorized in early intergrated circuit generation

  • BASIC

    Revolutionized software industy

  • Bill Gates

    sold software to microsoft

  • GUI

    allows computers to be more user friendly

  • 4th Generation Computers

    uses the micropressor chips

  • Altair Computer

    First PC

  • Steve Jobs

    Maker of Apple and Apple products

  • Apple II

    First pc to come as a package

  • WordStar

    First word proccessing unit

  • Visicalc

    first electronic spreadsheet application

  • Osborne Computer

    First portable computer

  • PageMaker

    First desktop publishing software

  • Excel

    Spreadsheet that uses graphical iterface

  • Mosaic

    Allowes users to view multmedia on web

  • 1st Generation Computers

    Last computers to have vaccums for tubes

  • Netscape

    Browser Software