Brief History
of computing
- 3000BC abacus
- 1623 first mechanical
calculator
- first adding machine
- 1890 US census uses
punch cards
- 1900 1910
mechanical calculators in common use
- 1906 triode developed
- 1928 IBM develops standard
punch card used until 1980s
- 1942 1946 ENIAC
built first computer
- 1951 CSIRAC
Ozs first computer
- 1954 first commercial
silicon transistors
- 1957 first disk
drive, FORTRAN developed
- 1963 BASIC developed
- 1968 first microcomputer
- 1972 first HP
pocket calculator, 8088 chip developed, PONG ships.
- 1977 Apple II
released
- 1981 IBM
PC launched
- 1984 Apple
Macintosh launched
- 1985: Windows 1.0
- 2015: Windows 10