Friday, September 7, 2007

Assingment #1

Timeline of the Computer- Assignment #1

In 1936, the first freely programmable computer was invented by Konrad Zuse. It was called the Z1 computer. Also invented in 1963 was the first keyboard, called the Dvorak keyboard. In 1937 John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry started to work on their ABC computer. 1938 was the year that the Hewlett Packard company created the first printer, the HP 200A. In 1941 Konrad Zuse finished his Z3. The Harvard-MARK 3 was invented in 1949. Electric Controls Company- first computer company- was founded by J. Persper Eckert and John Mauchly in the same year as the Harvard-MARK 3 was invented. Doug Englebart invented the first computer mouse in 1963. In 1969, Gary Starkweather invented the first laser printer. 1981 was the year that Hewlett-Packard super-chip, the first 32-bit, was introduced to the world. Adobe was invented in 1982. The first search engine was founded in 1990, it was called Archie. In 2005 Microsoft introduced Windows XP.

Bibliography:
http://www.computerhope.com/history/2000.htm

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Breeanne:

Your timeline is a little undeveloped.

A few omissions:

1940--code breaking computer developed

1950--EDIVAC and UNIVAC large mainframes

1970--Atari/Compaq and the rise of video games

Bibliography--should have more than one!

34/50 = 68%

Yaz