Timeline

1945 - The first electronic general purpose caculator ENIAC.

First stored-program computers - 1946, EDSAC, and Manchester Mark 1, 1948. N.B - Opinions differ. If you have any further information please e-mail us.

EDSAC Computer System (above)

1947 - Transistor (William Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain).

1951 - Early computer game, Nim.

1957 - FORTRAN invented (Formula Transistor). Programing language.

1958 - Intergrated circut (Microchip).

1965 - First commercialy succesful mini computer DEC PDP-8.

1971 - First microprocesser chip Intel 4004.

1975 - Microsoft founded by Bill Gates & Paul Allen.

1976 - Cray 1 super computer built. Apple computer company formed.

1977 - Mass-produced personal computer, Commodore PET.

1981 - First portable computer, Osborne 1. IBM lanches PC.

1984 - Apple Machintosh computer (Apple Mac) released. It is the first computer with a mouse & a graphical display ( GUI ).

1985 - Microsoft launches Windows.

1990 - IBM Pentium PC produced.

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