Hannah Poral

A B RIE F H I S T O R Y O F A timeline of events in the history of computing from mainframes to desktop. COMPUTERS 50s UNIVAC I The first commercially successful electronic computer was also the first general-purpose computer – designed to handle both numeric and textual information. Designed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. ATLAS 60s This machine introduced many modern architectural concepts: spooling, interrupts, pipelining, interleaved memory, virtual memory and paging.. CDC 6600 MOUSE FLOPPY DISK MITS Altair 8800 the first commercially successful hobby computer, is released. First microcomputer implementation of BASIC by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, it was written for the MITS Altair, this led to the formation of Microsoftlater in the year. 70s APPLE ...PRESENT Under CEO Tim Cook, who took over Apple after Jobs' death in 2011, the company has expanded, releasing a new generation of iPhones, iPads, iMacs, and MacBooks, along with new products such as the Apple Watch and the HomePod. In 2018, the tech giant became the first U.S. company to be worth $1 trillion. Online sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computing_1950%E2%80%931979?fbclid=IwAR1aquNwvhS5U7QPdBBVgUxMSJw7RAXeCKl6RVtnSIq6RreaLxd4ccsL6Ps https://www.thoughtco.com/the-history-of-apple-computers- Computers: Inside and Out: Kurt F. Lauckner