Date / year

computer / inventor
Konrad Zuse - Z1 Computer John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry

History
First freely programmable computer. Who was first in the computing biz is not always as easy as ABC.

1936 1942

ABC Computer

1944

Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper Harvard Mark I Computer

The Harvard Mark 1 computer.

1946

John Presper Eckert & John 20,000 vacuum tubes later... W. Mauchly ENIAC 1 Computer

1948

Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn Manchester Baby Computer & The Williams Tube

Baby and the Williams Tube turn on the memories.

1947/48

John Bardeen, Walter No, a transistor is not a Brattain & Wiliam Shockley computer, but this invention greatly affected the history of computers. The Transistor John Presper Eckert & John First commercial computer & W. Mauchly able to pick presidential UNIVAC Computer International Business Machines IBM 701 EDPM Computer John Backus & IBM IBM enters into ' The History of Computers' .

1951 1953

1954

The first successful high level programming language.

FORTRAN Computer Programming Language

1955

(In Use 1959) 1958 1962

Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America, and General Electric ERMA and MICR
Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce The Integrated Circuit Steve Russell & MIT

The first bank industry computer also MICR (magnetic ink character

Otherwise known as 'The Chip' The first computer game invented.

Spacewar Computer Game

1964

Douglas Engelbart

Computer Mouse & Windows

Nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end.

1969 1970 1971

ARPAnet

The original Internet.

Intel 1103 Computer Memory Faggin, Hoff & Mazor Intel 4004 Computer Microprocessor Alan Shugart &IBM The "Floppy" Disk

The world's first available dynamic RAM chip. The first microprocessor.

1971

Nicknamed the "Floppy" for its flexibility.

1973

Robert Metcalfe & Xerox

Networking.

The Ethernet Computer Networking

1974/75 1976/77

Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair & The first consumer IBM 5100 Computers computers. Apple I, II & TRS-80 & Commodore Pet Computers Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston More first consumer computers.

1978

Any product that pays for itself in two weeks is a surefire winner.

1979

VisiCalc Spreadsheet Software Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Word Processors. Barnaby WordStar Software

1981

IBM The IBM PC - Home Computer

From an "Acorn" grows a personal computer revolution

1981

Microsoft

From "Quick And Dirty" comes the operating system of the century.

MS-DOS Computer Operating System

1983 1984 1985

Apple Lisa Computer Apple Macintosh Computer Microsoft Windows

The first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface. The more affordable home computer with a GUI. Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple.