timeline of computers

By Joseph Pullen

  • first computer

    first computer
    Charles Babbage invents the first programmable computer in 1936

  • first computer that can calculate multiple problems at a time

    first computer that can calculate multiple problems at a time
    Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, design a computer that can calculate 29 problems at a time

  • first computer chip

    first computer chip
    Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce make the first computer chip (circuit)

  • first floppy disk

    first floppy disk
    alan shugert leads a team of IBM engineers to create the floppy disk

  • first personal computer

    first personal computer
    first personal computer was made

  • first laptop

    first laptop
    Alan Kay invented the first laptop

  • First apple laptop

    First apple laptop
    apple created their first laptop