Computer History Timeline Computer History Timeline - 1600's and Beyond The following is a computer history timeline outlining

some significant events in computer history. It is by no means meant to be complete but it is a great representation of some of the major landmarks in computer development beginning in the 1600's all the way to the millennium 2000. If your looking to start a career in the technology industry, or you simply want to know where all the high tech gadgetry of today started we highly recommend you take our brief tour in computing history. Computer History Timeline - 1617 to 1943 1617-Mathematician John Napier uses wooden rods for calculating. This calculation method was called Napiers Bones. 1642 - inventor named Blaise Pascal introduces to the world the digital adding machine referred to as the Pascaline digital adding machine. History of Mechanical Calculators 1822 -arles Babbage shines forth the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine which is considered a real general purpose computing machine. o The First Mechanical Computer 1906 Inventor Lee De Forest patents what is called the vacuum tube triode. It was used as an electronic switch in the first electronic computer systems. 1937 John V. Atanasoff creates what is considered the official first electronic computer. It is known as the Alanasoff Berry Computer or simply ABC. 1943 During World War II Alan Turing develops the Colossus which is a top secret British codebreaking computer. It was built to decode German secret messages. Computer History Timeline - 1944 to 1953 1945 John von Neumann outlines the architecture of the modern stored program computer system. 1946 An electronic computing machine called ENIAC is built by John Mauchly and Presper Eckert.
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The Story of ENIAC

1947 The semiconductor revolution is blasted off when William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain invent and test what is called a point contact transistor.

Birth of the Modern Day Computer

1949 At Cambridge University Maurice Wilkes assembles the first practical stored program computer called the EDSAC. 1950 The ERA 1101 is built by the Engineering Research Associates of Minneapolis. It is one of the first commercially produced computer systems. 1952 The UNIVAC used by the U.S. Census Bureau becomes the first commercial computer to attract substantial public attention.
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The History of UNIVAC

1953IBM ships its first electronic computer system called the 701. Computer History Timeline - 1954 to 1960 1954 Gordon Teal from Texas Instruments perfects a silicon based junction transistor which brings a tremendous reduction in costs to build a computer. IBMs 650 magnetic drum calculator is also established as the first mass produced computer. Mass produced in the 50s is 450 computers if you can believe that. 1955 The first fully transistorized computer TRADIC is announced by Bell Laboratories. 1956 The TX-0 is built by MIT researchers. It is the first general purpose, programmable computer that is built using transistors. Also, the era of magnetic disk storage is about to blossom when IBM ships a 305 RAMAC to Zellerbach Paper in San Francisco California.

1958 The first integrated circuit is created by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments. This proved that both resistors and capacitors could exist on the same semiconductor material.
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Integrated Circuits Are Born

1959 IBMs 7000 series mainframes become its first transistorized computer.Also in 1959 Robert Noyces integrated circuit allows printing of electrical conducting channels directly on a silicon surface. 1960The first commercial modem called Dataphone is desiged by Bell Labs. It was designed specifically for converting digital computer data to analog signals for transmission across a long distance network. Computer History Timeline - 1961 to 1970 1961 According to Datamation magazine IBM has approximately an 81.2 percent share of the computer market. IBM also introduced the 1400 Series computer system in this year.

1964 IBM announces a family of six mutually compatible computers and 40 peripherals that work together called the System/360. Also in 1964 Seymour Crays CDC supercomputer performs up to three million instructions per second which literally is a processing speed three times its closest competitor, IBMs Stretch system. In 1964 IBMs SABRE reservation system is also setup up for American Airlines. 1965 Digital Equipment Corporation introduces the first commercially successful minicomputer called the PDP-8. 1966 Hewlett-Packard enters the all purpose computer business with its release of the HP-2115. The HP-2115s computing power is that which is formerly found only in far larger computer systems before it. 1968 Intel was founded on July 18, 1968, by Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andrew Grove.
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Intel And The First Microprocessor

1970The computer-to-computer communication revolution expands when the Department of Defense establishes four devices on the ARPAnet. Two of these nodes reside at University of California campuses including one in Santa Barbara and another in Los Angeles. Another sits at University of Utah and the fourth resides at SRI International. Computer History Timeline - 1971 to 1975 1971 The 8-inch flobby disk is invented by a team at IBMs San Jose Laboratories. Also in 1971 one of the first personal computers called the Kenbak-1 is advertised for $750 in Scientific American magazine. The first advertisement for a microprocessor also appears for the Intel 4004 in Electronic News. 1972Intels 8008 microprocessor makes its debut. Hewlett-Packard announces the HP35. Steve Wozniak builds his blue box which is a tone generator to make free phone calls. 1973At the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Robert Metcalfe devices the Ethernet method of networking. Also in 1972 the Micral is the earliest commercial non-kit personal computer system based on a microprocessor. It used the Intel 8008 processor. 1973 also saw the TV Typewriter desiged by Don Lancaster. It provided the first display of alphanumeric information on your ordinary television. 1974 Researchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center design the Alto which is the first workstation with a built-in mouse for input. Also in 1974 Scelbi advertises the 8H computer. What makes the 8H special is the fact that it is the first commercially advertised U.S. computer based on a microprocessor. It used the Intel 8008 computer processor.

1975 Microsoft is founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975.The first commercial packet switching network called Telenet is created. It is the civilian equivalent of ARPAnet. Also in 1975 The January edition of Popular Electronics features on its cover the Altair 8800 computer which uses the Intel 8080 microprocessor. 1975 also was the year of the visual display module prototype. It was designed by Lee Felsenstein, and it was the first implementation of a memory mapped alphanumeric video display for personal computer systems. Computer History Timeline - 1976 to 1980 1976 Apple is established on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne to sell a single board computer called the Apple I. Also in 1976 the 5 inch flexible disk drive and disk is introduced by Shugart Associates. The Cray I makes its name as the first commercially successful vector processor also in 1976. 1977 Apple Computer introduces the Apple II computer system. The TRS-80 is also introduced by Tandy Radio Shack. Commodore also introduces the PET, or Personal Electronic Transactor. 1978The VAX 11/780 from Digital Equipment Corporation features the capability to address up to 4.3GB of virtual memory. This provided hundreds of times the capacity of most minicomputers of the time. 1979 Motorola introduces the 68000 microprocessor. 1980The first hard drive for microcomputers called the ST-506 is created by Seagate Technology. Also in 1980 the first optical data storage disk contains 60 times the capacity of a 5 -inch floppy disk. Another sweet kick off for the 80s is the invention of the computer worm by John Shoch from the Xerox Palo alto Research Center. This so called worm is a short program that searches a network for idle processors. Computer History Timeline - 1981 to 1984 1981 IBM introduces its Personal Computer (PC), kicking off the fast growth of the personal computer market and revolution.The Birth Of The IBM PC Xerox also introduces the Star which is the first personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). The first portable computer is also completed by Adam Osborne. Like many inventions of the day it gets its name from the inventor and its called the Osborne I, go figure. But check this, the Osborne I portable computer weighed in at 24 pounds and sold for $1795 dollars at the time. Also in 1981 Sony Corporation introduces and ships the first 3 -inch floppy disk drive and disks. 1983 Apple introduces its Lisa computer incorporating a GUI very similar to that first introduced on the Xerox Star.Compaq Computer Corporation introduces its first PC clone that uses the same software as the IBM PC.

1984 Apple Computer launches the Macintosh which is the first successful mouse driven computer with a GUI. It was launched in fact with a single $1.5 million commercial during the 1984 Super Bowl. Also in 1984 IBM releases the PC-AT which is three times faster than original PCs. Its speed came from its usage of the Intel 286 processor.The PC-AT also introduced a new computer bus called the 16-bit ISA bus. computer History Timeline - 1985 to 1989 1985 Philips introduces the CD-ROM.1986 Compaq announces the Deskpro 386 which is the first computer on the market to use Intels new 386 chip.1987 IBM introduces its PS/2 computers making the 3 -inch floppy disk drive and VGA video standard for PCs. Also introduced with the PS/2 was its inclusion of the first plug-and-play computer bus for PCs called MicroChannel Architecture (MCA).1988 After leaving Apple, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs unveils his own company called NeXT. Also in 1988 Compaq and other PC makers develop a new computer bus called the Enchanced Industry Standard Architecture (EISA). What was especially unique about this bus was that unlike MicroChannel EISA remained backward compatible with the ISA bus.1989 Intel releases the 486 microprocessor which contains more than one million transistors. Intel also introduces along side it the 486 motherboard chipsets. Computer History Timeline - 1990 to 1997 1990 The World Wide Web (WWW) is born after researcher Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML, the Hypertext Markup Language.1993 Intel releases the Pentium processor, leaving behind its old numbered naming convention in the process as they realized its impossible to trademark a number. Intel also releases motherboard chipsets and for the first time completes motherboards. 1994 Yahoo is founded by two Stanford graduate students named Jerry Yang and David Filo. Fun Fact - Yahoo originally started out with the name Jerrys Guide to the World Wide Web. 1995Microsoft releases the first mainstream 32-bit operating system Windows 95 in huge numbers. Intel releases the first processor in their P6 family called the Pentium Pro processor in 1995. 1997Intel releases the Pentium II processor and AMD introduces the K6 which is compatible with the Intel Pentium. Computer History Timeline - 1998 to 2000 1998 Google is co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they are students at Stanford University. The company is first incorporated as a privately held company in September of 1998.Microsoft releases Windows 98. Intel releases their Celeron processor which is basically a low-cost version of the Pentium II processor of the time.

1999 releases their Pentium III processor and AMD introduces their Athlon line of processors. 2000 Microsoft releases Windows Millennium Edition or Me, and Windows 2000. The 1GHz milestone is hit when both Intel and AMD introduce processors running at 1GHz.

Apple iPad2 Review

Posted by Nanya on June 8th, 2011 Apple had released iPad last year that worked really well, and now they are about to unveil the new iPad 2 sometime in third quarter of 2011. Let me highlight its features in this Apple iPad2 review.

It is featured with 10-inch screen, and were hoping for a couple of cameras for FaceTime video chat, along with retina display screen. It has better storage capacity and more RAM. Though its essentially the same, it has several upgrades. Now with iOS5 unveiled at the 2011 WWDC, it makes me wonder whether Apple would go with iOS 4.3.3 or theyd consider testing the iOS5 thoroughly and release the new

iPad2 with the same. Anyway, only time would answer these questions; well have to wait and watch until the new iPad2 comes out!