Pascaline Difference Engine Abacus France England Chinese Blaise Pascal Charles Babbage First First Working Designs first Calculator Mechanical computer Used Beads Calculator
3000 BC 1500 AD 1640 1801 1822 1830
Calculator Punch Card Analytical Engine Italy France England-Babbage Da Vinci drew Jaquard Analytical Engine plans for a First Storage Device calculator Lady Ada Lovelace- First Programmer ENIAC Punch Card USA USA First Hermann electronic Hollerith general use Tabulating Transister is computer Machine Patented
1890 1910 1943 1945 1948
Hollerith sells his The Computer Bug company and it Named by Grace becomes IBM Hopper Vacuum Tube vs Transistor
Vacuum Tube Transistor • Big • Very small-fit on • Hot spacecraft • Slow • No light bulb heat! • Broke down often • Due to size, many more could work faster • More reliable-not as much to break Altair-first Integrated computer Circuit available to Jack Kilby In November, buy by Texas Intel uses the individuals Instruments first $397 (over Microprocessor $1000 today!)
1958 1963 1971 1972 1974
Mouse Pong released by Atari-first computer Douglas Englbert game to gain patents the first popularity mouse Macintosh is Microsoft Apple II is released using Bill Gates and released the GUI Paul Alan technology
1975 1976 1977 1980 1984 1991
Apple IBM releases the IBM PC Pixar begins work Steve Jobs and Steve on full length Wozniak movies Other Developments • 1991-World Wide Web is launched • 1996-Internet Explorer is released • 1999-Napster starts peer to peer file sharing • 2001-IPOD launched by Apple • 2005-YouTube • 2007-Iphone • 2009-Nook released by Barnes and Noble and first netbook released • 2010-first fully robotic surgery performed and Watson wins jeopardy!