Timeline for computer history By Zhanerke Period: 1800 to 2022 HISTORY OF COMPUTERS 1808 Invention of the punched card 1820 Thomas adding machine, the first mechanical calculating device 1822 Charles Babbage's Difference Engine 1888 Hollerith tabulator, the first automatic computing device Oct 22, 1925 Invention of the point transistor 1936 Turing machine (MT) 1937 Z1 designed by Konrad Zuse 1943 "Mark I", the first computer, by IBM 1946 ENIAC the first general purpose electronic digital computer that could be reprogrammed for a wide range of tasks. Period: 1946 to 1954 First generation computers Dec 23, 1947 Bell Labs point transistor amplifier 1948 Manchester Small Experimental Machine 1949 EDSAC - the first computers. Period: 1954 to 1964 Computers of the second generation 1957 first implemented high-level programming language 1963 Creation of ASCII Period: 1964 to 1971 Third generation computers Apr 7, 1964 System 360 1970 Microprocessor created Period: 1971 to 2000 Present - fourth generation computers 1972 Computer Datapoint 2200 1972 Computer Terminal Corporation 1973 Xerox Alto is the first computer with a windowed interface. 1974 MITS began production of the Altair 8800 computer 1975 фирма MOS Technology, Inc. computer KIM-1, 1976 Apple Computer I 1977 Commodore first computer Apr 3, 1986 IBM PC Convertible - the first laptop 1994 Apple Computers — Power PC. 1998 First generation iMac desktop computer 2000 Windows ME и Windows 2000 2001 Windows XP 2005 Apple has released the Mac mini. 2006 Apple has released the MacBook Pro. 2008 Apple released the MacBook and MacBook Air laptops.
the first general purpose electronic digital computer that could be reprogrammed for a wide range of tasks.
