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the evolution of computers

By christianswatzell88

  • the first computer

    the first computer
    the first computer was build in 1890 by Herman Hollerith and the computer was born not for entertainment or email but out of a need to solve a serious number-crunching crisis.

  • J.V Atanasoff

    J.V Atanasoff
    J.V Atanasoff,a professor of physics and mathmatics at lowa state university,attempts to build the first computer with out gears,cams,belts, and shafts

  • the first computer to store information

    the first computer to store information
    Atanasoff and his graduate student,Clifford Berry,design a computer that can solve 29 equations simultaneously.this marks the first time computer is able to store information on its main memory.

  • the electronic numerical integrator and the calculator

    the electronic numerical integrator and the calculator
    Two University of Pennsylvania professors-John Mauchly and J.Presper Eckert-build the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator.

  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper
    Grace Hopper develops the first computer language,which eventually becomes known as COBOL.Inventor Thomas Johnson Watson,Jr.,son of IBM CEo Thomas Johnson Watson,Sr.,conceives the IBM 701 EDPM to help the United Nations keep tabs on Korea during the war.

  • FORTRAN

    FORTRAN
    The FORTRAN programming language was born.

  • Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce

    Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce
    Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuit,know as the computer chip.

  • Douglas Engelbart

    Douglas Engelbart
    Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern computer,with a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI).This marks the evolution of the computer from a specalized machine for sciencetist and mathmaticians to technology that is more accessible to the general public.

  • DRAM

    DRAM
    the newly formed intel unveils the intel 1103,the first dynamic access memory chip.

  • floppy disk

    floppy disk
    Alan Shugart leads a team of IBM engineers who invent the "floppy disk"allowing data to be shared among computers.

  • Robert Metcalfe

    Robert Metcalfe
    Robert Metcalfe,a member of the research staff for xerox, develops Ethernet for connecting multiple computers and other hardware.

  • IBM

    IBM
    the IBM is the first portable computer.

  • Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

    Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
    Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computer on April Fool’s Day and roll out the Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board.

  • Sales

    Sales
    A number of personal computers hit the market,including Scelbi and Mark-8-Altair,IBM 5100,RadioShack's TRS-80-affectionately known as the "Trash 80",and the commodore PET.

  • the first .com

    the first .com
    The first dot-com domain name is registered on March 15, years before the World Wide Web would mark the formal beginning of Internet history. The Symbolics Computer Company, a small Massachusetts computer manufacturer, registers Symbolics.com. More than two years later, only 100 dot-coms had been registered.