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History of computers
- 1822
- Charles Babbage begins developing the Analytical machine
- Charles Babbage begins developing the Analytical machine
- 1832
- Semen Korsakov uses punch cards to
store and search for information.
- Semen Korsakov uses punch cards to
store and search for information.
- 1843
- Ada Lovelace translates Babbage's
article on the Analytical machine and
added notes of her own, describing
the Bernoulli numbers
- Ada Lovelace translates Babbage's
article on the Analytical machine and
added notes of her own, describing
the Bernoulli numbers
- 1871
- Charles Babbage makes a small
part of the Analytical machine
- Charles Babbage makes a small
part of the Analytical machine
- 1939
- Bell Telephone Laboratories completes this
calculator which was designed by George Stibitz
- Bell Telephone Laboratories completes this
calculator which was designed by George Stibitz
- 1941
- Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 computer
- Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 computer
- 1944
- The first colossus is operational in
Bletchley park but it wasn't made
public until 1970
- The first colossus is operational in
Bletchley park but it wasn't made
public until 1970
- 1958
- Jack Kilby created the first
integrated circuit at Texas
Instruments
- Jack Kilby created the first
integrated circuit at Texas
Instruments
- 1961
- UNIMATE, the first industrial robot, began work at General
Motors. Obeying step-by-step commands stored on a magnetic
drum, the 4,000-pound arm sequenced and stacked hot pieces of
die-cast metal.
- UNIMATE, the first industrial robot, began work at General
Motors. Obeying step-by-step commands stored on a magnetic
drum, the 4,000-pound arm sequenced and stacked hot pieces of
die-cast metal.
- 1963
- ASCII, American Standard Code for Information
Interchange, permitted machines from different
manufacturers to exchange data. It consisted of
codes of 1's and 0's
- ASCII, American Standard Code for Information
Interchange, permitted machines from different
manufacturers to exchange data. It consisted of
codes of 1's and 0's
- 1972
- Pong is released
- Pong is released
- 1974
- The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
designed the Alto, the first work station
with a built-in mouse for input.
- The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
designed the Alto, the first work station
with a built-in mouse for input.
- 1980
- IBM released their most successful hard
disk ever - Direct Access Storage Device
(DASD)
- IBM released their most successful hard
disk ever - Direct Access Storage Device
(DASD)
- 1936
- Konrad Zuse finishes the Z1 computer, the first
freely programmable computer.
- Konrad Zuse finishes the Z1 computer, the first
freely programmable computer.
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