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1801 PUNCHED CARD TECHNOLOGY
Marie Jacquard invents a loom that uses punched wooden cards for automatically weave fabric designs. In France. Punch cards were preceded by punch bands, as in the machine proposed by Basile Bouchon. These bands would inspire information recording for automatic pianos. -
1822 The diferencial machine
Charles Babbage made of a steam driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers. The project, funded by the English government, is a failure. More than a century later, however, the world's first computer was actually built. The diferencial machine. -
1941 Z3
Atanossof and Clifford Berry designs a better computer that is capable of making 29 equation simuntaneously. Z3 was the first computer with store infomation in its memory, so this computer advance was one of the msot importnat ones. -
1946 First comercial for computers and bussines appliactions
Mauchaly and Presper leaved the university to start a commercial venture and secured a contract with the National Bureau of Standards to study what would be required for a computer for the Bureau of the Census. -
1947 The transisor
William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain f Bell Laboratories they invneted a way of cretaing an electric switch with solid materials and also that dosent needed a vacum. -
1953 First computer langauge
In the early years of computing technology, electronic
computer could only be programmed by numbers,
tape but Grace Hopper worked on a commercial computer that allows a high level of programing language -
Computer chip 1958
Jack Billy and Robert Noyce inevnted a arteffact most known as a computer chip. This dicoverd revolutionated computers in a huge scale so he was rewrded for his amazing job rewarded with a noble prize in the year of 2000 not only for that job, also for his other apportations to science. -
1964 Prototype of the modern computer
In 1964 the American inventor showed a prototipe of a modern computer with a graphical user interface and a mouse. This marks a great change because it allows not just to scientist and mathematicians to use this technology perhaps it could be used in the future to all people. The picture is a prototype of a mouse -
1969
In the year of 1969. A group of developers at Bell Labs produce UNIX, that is a operating system that addressed compatibility issues. was portable across multiple platforms and became the operating system of choice among mainframes at large companies and government entities. Due to the slow nature of the system. -
1970 Intel 1103
In 1970 was created the first Dynamic Access Memory (DRAM) chip. Developed and fabricated by Intel. Introduced in October 1970, the 1103 was the first commercially available DRAM IC. And due to its small physical size and low price relative to magnetic-core memory, it replaced the latter in many applications. -
1971 Floppy disk
A floppy disk allows data to be shared among computers. Alan Shugart leads a team of IBM engineers to creat this.were a ubiquitous form of data storage and exchange from the mid-1970s into the first years of the 21st century. -
1973 Conecting multiple computers
The electric engineer Robert Metcalfe in 1973, ember of the research staff for Xerox, develops Ethernet for connecting multiple computers and other hardware making computers to be one step closer for be completely available for every person- -
1975
The revlutionary Altair 8080, described as the "world's first minicomputer kit to rival commercial models. Two firneds, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, offer to write software for the Altair, using the new basic language. On April 4, after the success of this first endeavor, the two childhood friends form their own software company, Microsoft. The image is the magazine where was posted this inrfoemation. -
1976 April fools day
In 1978 Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne form Apple Computer Inc to sell the Apple I personal computer kit. The kits were hand-built by Wozniak and first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club. They went on sale in July 1976. -
1981 The first IBM personal computer
In this year the first IBM personal computer, code-named Acorn was showed. It uses Microsoft's operating system. It has an Intel chip, two floppy disks and an optional color monitor. Floppy disks, IBM, Intel chip, etc. All this technology where used in the computer. -
1983 Apples first personal computer
This is the first personal computer with a GUI. It flops but eventually evolves into the Macintosh. It also features a drop-down menu and icons. The Gavilan SC is the first portable computer with the familiar flip form factor and the first to be marketed as a laptop -
1985 Windows
In the year of 1985 the comoany of microsoft announces windows. This was the company's response to Apple's GUI. Commodore unveils the Amiga 1000, which features advanced audio and video capabilities. -
1994 Gaming machines
In the year of 1994 pcs were strated to use as a game machine because of the new technological advances including games such as: Theme park, Magic carpet and little big adventure. -
2001 Modern computers
By this time computers where much faster and have a much bigger memory capability and Apple unveils the Mac OS X operating system, which provides protected memory architecture and pre-emptive multi-tasking, among other benefits. -
2017 molecular informatics
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency known by the acronym DARPA is developing a a new Molecular Informatics program that uses molecules as computers. Chemistry offers a rich set of properties that we may be able to harness for rapid, scalable information storage and processing. -
Video and links
This video is a short resume about history of computers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBiVyEfZVUU+
Some links:
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-history-of-apple-computers-1991454
https://homepage.cs.uri.edu/faculty/wolfe/book/Readings/Reading03.htm https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/f/floppydi.htm
