Timetoast Computer History Project

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    first programable computer

    computer created by Germany's Konrad Zuse in 1936 to 1938 and is considered to be the first electro-mechanical binary programmable computer and really the first functional computer.
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    The first digital computer the abc

    the ABC started being developed by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry in 1937 and continued to be developed until 1942 at the Iowa State College

  • Konrad Zuse completes a progammable calculator

    Konrad Zuse completes a progammable calculator
    program kpnrad zuse makes the first programmable calculater
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    ENIAC invented

    computer It occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons. many still consider the ENIAC to be the first digital computer because it was fully functional.

  • Colossus created

    Colossus created
    hthe first electric programmable computer was developed by Tommy Flowers and first demonstrated in December 1943. The Colossus was created to help the British code breakers read encrypted German messages.

  • The first stored program computer

    The first stored program computer
    computer this is considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. The computer performed its first calculation on May 6, 1949 and was the computer that ran the first graphical computer game, nicknamed "Baby".

  • First stored program computer

    First stored program computer
    computerFirst delivered to the United States Government in 1950, the UNIVAC 1101 or ERA 1101 is considered to be the first computer that was capable of storing and running a program from memory.

  • 1958

    1958
    hThe first integrated circuit is first developed by Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor and Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments. The first IC was demonstrated on September 12, 1958.

  • AT&T introduces MODEM.

    AT&T introduces MODEM.
    the first Modem known as the Dataphone, which was first released by AT&T in 1960.

  • Doug Engelbart publicly demonstrates Hypertext on December 9, 1968.

    Doug Engelbart publicly demonstrates Hypertext on December 9, 1968.
    A method of organizing and accessing text or other data, such as tables, presentational content and images, through the use of hyperlinks. Today, anyone who has been on the Internet is familiar with hypertext as it is in every link they click or tap.

  • First RFP for a network goes out.

    First RFP for a network goes out.
    1First RFP for a network goes out.

  • first data moves

    first data moves
    1On September 2, 1969 the first data moves from UCLA host to the IMP switch.

  • The first personal computer

    The first personal computer
    1In 1975, Ed Roberts coined the term "personal computer" when he introduced the Altair 8800.

  • The first PC (IBM compatible) computer

    The first PC (IBM compatible) computer
    compuderIBM introduced its first personal computer called the IBM PC in 1981. The computer was code named and still sometimes referred to as the Acorn and had a 8088 processor, 16 KB of memory, which was expandable to 256 and utilized MS-DOS.

  • The first multimedia computer

    The first multimedia computer
    12In 1992, Tandy Radio Shack becomes one of the first companies to release a computer based on the MPC standard with its introduction of the M2500 XL/2 and M4020 SX computers.