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Mike Dunt
⟶ Wurde aktualisiert 8 Mai 2018 ⟶
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Ereignisse
Fingers Used For Caculations
First Mechanical Calculating Device
John Naiper invents Naiper's Bones
Naiper's Ideas on logarithms. invented slide rules
First Automatic Calculating Machine- Blaise Pascal
Grillet de Roven turns the Pascaline into a pocket-sized device.
Leibnitz invents binary system of counting.
Jacquard controls loom by using punched cards.
Charles Babbage, known as father of modern computing, designs Difference Engine for calculating - first digital computer - assisted by Ada Lovelace.
Babbage's Analytical Engine designed but never built, with similar lines to the modern computer: sections for input, processing and output.
George Boole (English mathematician) publishes his ideas on login.
Hollerith tabulator - first commercially successful computer adds up the 1890 USA census.
Invention of vacuum tube.
Konrad Zuse in Berlin builds first working digital computer in his kitchen, using relays.
John Attanasoff in Iowa builds first electronic computer.
Zuse Z3 built, first working programmed computer.
ABC (Attanasoff-Berry computer), first modern computer.
Turing and Bletchley Park develop Colossus, first electronic special-purpose computer
Mark I, first electronic general-purpose computer, based on Babbage's ideas.
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), first general-purpose stored-program electronic computer.
Invention of transistor.
CSIRAC, first Australian electronic computer and only fifth in the world.
UNIVAC, first commercial computer sold, correctly predicts outcome of US Presidential election, but then reprogrammed to incorrectly predict a close result.
IBM markets the 650, first mass-produced computer.
IBM develops FORTRAN (Formula Translator) programming language for mathematics.
Grace Hopper invents COBOL (Common Business Orientated Language) programming language for business. First integrated circuit built.
BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code_ becomes first widely used general programming language. IBM launches 360 series, first 'family' of mainframe computer models.
PDP-8, first mini-computer.
256-bit RAM chip. Keyboards used for input.
ARPANET created, basis of the Internet.
Niklaus Wirth creates Pascal programming language.
Intel® 4004 created, first microprocessor (chip).
Frames (windows) used for first time. The 8" floppy. First pocket calculator, made by Texas Instruments.
RAM chips reach 4Kb, then 16Kb in same year. Hard drives sold by IBM.
Intel® 8080, first commercial microprocessor.
Bill Gates creates DOS system language for Altair PC. Laser printers. Altair 8800, first personal computer in kit form.
Apple® IIe, TRS-80 and PET, first popular commercial personal computers.
First 5" floppy-disk drives.
First popular spreadsheet application, VisiCalc®. First popular work processor application, Wordstar.
RAM reaches 64Kb.
First popular database application, dBase II®. First IBM PC.
Internet begins when rules are agreed
First graphical user interface (GUI) personal computer with mouse, Apple's Lisa. RAM at 256Kb.
Macintosh® computer, first successful GUI computer. Apple launches 3.5" floppy disk. RAM over 1Mb. Now over 1000 Internet hosts.
Microsoft launches Windows®. Combination of PageMaker,® Macintosh® and laster printer begins desktop publishing revolution using personal computers.
Newton personal digital assistant launches by Apple. First with handwriting recognition. Bill Gates becomes richest person in United States. First web browser, NCSA Mosaic™, allows the World Wide Web to become popular.
First IPhone
Net Neutrality Dies
First touch Screen phone
Magnavox Odyssey- First Home System