Time line of computers

By thalsey

  • Enigma

    Enigma
    This was the first incription device. This changed the way we looked at computers

  • Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper

    Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper
    They build the MARK series of computers for Havard. This gave schools faster somputers.

  • ENIAC

    ENIAC
    John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly: John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly develop the ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer). Helps people figure thngs out faster.

  • F.C. Williams

    F.C. Williams
    F.C. Williams develops his cathode-ray tube (CRT) storing device the forerunner to random-access memory (RAM)

  • Donald Watts

    Donald Watts
    Donald Watts Davies joins Alan Turing to build the fastest digital computer in England at the time, the Pilot ACE

  • Andrew Donald Booth

    Andrew Donald Booth
    Andrew Donald Booth invents magnetic drum memory

  • Howard Aiken

    Howard Aiken
    Howard Aiken develops the Harvard-MARK III

  • Claude Shannon

    Claude Shannon
    Claude Shannon builds the first machine that plays chess

  • Pilot ACE

    Pilot ACE
    Donald Watts Davies joins Alan Turing to build the fastest digital computer in England at the time, the Pilot ACE

  • John Backus

    John Backus
    John Backus & IBM develop the FORTRAN Computer Programming Language