Major Computer History Timeline

  • Diffrence Engine

    Diffrence Engine
    The difference engine was a automatic mechanical calculator designed to solve polynomial functions.
  • Z1

    Z1
    The first binary computer was the Z1, which was the first freely programmable computer in the world which used Boolean logic and binary floating point numbers, but was unreliable.
  • Colossus

    Colossus
    This was the machine that broke the German Lorenz code. It was made by tommy Flowers, who made 10of these machines, but unfortunately, the government told them to destroy the machine and they were lost in history.
  • IBM Computer

    IBM Computer
    Computers were released on the market for everyone to use. One major company was called IBM.
  • Transistor Computer

    Transistor Computer
    This machine impacted computers because they could replace big, heavy vacuums and tubes with a lighter, much smaller transistor.
  • Microchips and Microprocesser

    Microchips and Microprocesser
    The microchip and microprocessor is a very important feature in computers. These two inventions revolutionized the computers allowing them to by smaller and stronger in the computer capabilities.
  • RAM

    RAM
    Intel introduced the most common form of data today, which is RAM. This impacted the computer genaration alot because you could store a lot of information into a small, light pieces instead of big, heavy pieces of plastic.
  • Apple company

    Apple company
    Apple was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. At this time this company made the best computers around. Apple was also the company that first used GUI interface.
  • Apple Macintosh

    Apple Macintosh
    This was the computer that brought us the computer that brought us a GUI and mouse
  • Xbox

    Xbox
    This was the first Xbox edition. In 2002, they allowed people to play online without a broadband connection.