Detailed facts on computer development

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• 1901 The first radio message is sent across the Atlantic Ocean in Morse code.

• 1915 The first telephone call is made across the continent.

• 1918 Panasonic is founded March 18, 1918.• 1920 First radio broadcasting begins in United

States, Pittsburgh, PA.• 1921 Czech playwright Karel Capek coins the

term "robot" in the 1921 play RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots).


• 1923 Jack St. Clair Kilby, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the Integrated Circuit, handheld calculator, and thermal printer is born November 8, 1923.

• 1924 The Computing - Tabulating - Recording (C-T-R) company is renamed to IBM on February 14, 1924.

• 1927 Philo Taylor Farnsworth becomes the first person to successfully transmit a TV signal on September 7, 1927.

• 1935 The Polygraph machine aka lie detector is used for the first time.

• 1936 Germanys Konrad Zuse creates the Z1, one of the first binary digital computers and a machine that could be controlled through a punch tape.

• 1937 Iowa State Colleges John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry begin work on creating the binary-based ABC (Atanasoft-Berry Computer). Considered by most to be the first electronic digital computer.

• 1938 Chester Carlson produces first electrophotographic image October 22, 1938, which later becomes the Xerox machine.

• 1939 George Stibitz completes the Complex Number Calculator capable of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing complex numbers. This device provides a foundation for digital computers.

• 1943 ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the first general-purpose electronic digital calculator begins to be constructed. This computer by most is considered to be the first electronic computer.

• 1943 Dan Noble with Motorola designs a "Walkie Talkie" the first portable FM two-way radio that a backpack version that weighed 35 pounds.www.argusacademy.com

• 1944 The first binary, and partially programmable computer, Colossus, was created at Bletchley Park.

• 1945 The term bug as computer bug was termed by Grace Hopper when programming the MARK II.

• 1946 Freddie Williams applies for a patent on his cathode-ray tube (CRT) storing device in December. The device that later became known as the Williams tube is capable of storing between 512 and 1024 bits of data.

• 1946 ENIAC computer completed.• 1947 ISO is founded.

• 1947 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley invent the first transistor at the Bell Laboratories on December 23, 1947.

• 1948 Andrew Donald Booth creates magnetic drum memory, which is two inches long and two inches wide and capable of holding 10 bits per inch.

• 1949 The first computer company, Electronic Controls Company is founded by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the same individuals who helped create the ENIAC computer.

• 1951 UNIVAC I was introduced.


• 1952 Alexander Sandy Douglas created the first graphical computer game of Tic-Tac-Toe on an EDSAC known as "OXO."

• 1953 IBM introduces the 701 to the public April 7, 1953. The 701 is IBM's first electric computer and first mass produced computer.

• 1954 IBM becomes the first company to translate Russian into English using a computer.

• 1955 Dartmouth Colleges John McCarthy coins the term "artificial intelligence."

• 1955 Bell Labs introduces its first transistor computer. Transistors are faster, smaller and create less heat than traditional vacuum tubs, making these computers more reliable and efficient.

• 1955 The ENIAC is turned off for the last time. Its estimated to have done more arithmetic than the entire human race had done prior to 1945.

• 1956 The programming language FORTRAN is introduced to the public October 15, 1956.

• 1958 The first integrated circuit is first developed by Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor and Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments. The first IC was demonstrated on September 12, 1958.

• 1960 The Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) programming language is invented.

• 1962 Steve Russell creates "SpaceWar!" and releases it in February 1962. This game is considered the first game intended for computers.

• 1962 Philips invents the compact audio cassette tape.


• 1963 The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is developed to standardize data exchange among computers.

• 1963 Bell Telephone introduces the push button telephone November 18, 1963.

• 1964 Dartmouth Universitys John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Language (BASIC) and run it for the first time May 1, 1964.www.argusacademy.com

• 1966 Robert Taylor joins ARPA and brings Larry Roberts there to develop ARPANET.

• 1967 IBM creates the first floppy disk.• 1967 The LOGO programming language is

developed and is later known as "turtle graphics," a simplified interface useful for teaching children computers.

• 1967 Nokia is formed.• 1968 Intel Corporation is founded by Robert Noyce

and Gordon Moore.• 1969 AT&T Bell Laboratories develop Unix.


• 1969 Gary Starkweather, while working with Xerox invents the laser printer.

• 1969 UCLA puts out a press release introducing the public to the Internet on July 3, 1969.

• 1969 The first U.S. bank ATM went into service at 9:00am on September 2, 1969.

• 1969 Charley Kline a UCLA student tries to send "login", the first message over ARPANET at 10:30 p.m on October 29, 1969. The system transmitted "l" and then "o" but then crashed making the first day a message was sent over the Internet and the first network crash.

• 1970 Intel announces the 1103, a new DRAM memory chip containing more than 1,000 bits of information. This chip is classified as random-access memory (RAM).

• 1970 Intel introduces the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004 on November 15, 1971.

• 1970 Philips introduces the VCR.• 1970 Centronics introduces the first dot matrix

printer.• 1970 Douglas Englebart gets a patent for the first

computer mouse on November 17, 1970.


• 1971 The first 8" floppy diskette drive was introduced.

• 1971 Ray Tomlinson sends the first e-mail, the first messaging system to send messages across a network to other users.

• 1971 The computer gets a voice, as the first computer is demonstrated with a synthesized voice.

• 1971 The first laser printer is developed at Xerox PARC.

• 1971 FTP is first purposed.

• 1971 Niklaus Wirth invents the Pascal programming language.

• 1971 Intel develops the the first processor, the 4004• 1971 First edition of Unix released November 03, • 1972 Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs invents the C

programming language.• 1972 The compact disc is invented in the United

States.• 1972 Atari releases Pong, the first commercial video

game on November 29, 1972.

• 1972 First public demo of ARPANET.• 1973 IBM introduces its 3660

Supermarket System, which uses a laser to read grocery prices and UPC bar codes.

• 1974 IBM develops SEQUEL, which today is known as SQL today.

• 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen Establish Microsoft April 4, 1975.

• 1976 Intel introduces the 8085 processor on March 1976.


• 1976 The first 5.25-inch floppy disk is invented.• 1976 The Intel 8086 is introduced June 8, 1976.• 1978 The first spam e-mail was sent by Gary Thuerk

in May 1, 1978 an employee at Digital who was advertising the new DECSYSTEM-2020, 2020T, 2060, AND 2060T on ARPAnet.

• 1979 Robert Williams of Michigan became the first human to be killed by a robot at the Ford Motors company on January 25, 1979. Resulting in a $10 million dollar lawsuit.

• 1979 Software Arts Incorporated VisiCalc becomes the first electronic spreadsheet and business program for PCs.www.argusacademy.com

• 1979 Oracle introduces the first commercial version of SQL.

• 1980 IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. The pair buy the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template. IBM allows the two to keep the marketing rights to the operating system, called DOS.

• 1980 IBM hires Microsoft to develop versions of BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, and Pascal for the PC being developed by IBM.

• 1981 MS-DOS 1.0 was released August, 1981.www.argusacademy.com

• 1981 IBM joins the computer race by announcing the IBM Personal Computer on August 12, 1981, which runs the new MS-DOS operating system and has a starting price of $1,565.

• 1982 The first permanent artificial heart is implanted into Barney Clark December 2, 1982.

• 1983 Lotus 1-2-3, a spreadsheet program is introduced January 26, 1983.

• 1983 ARPANET standardizes TCP/IP.• 1983 Microsoft Windows was announced

November 10, 1983.


• 1985 The first Internet domain name symbolics.com is registered by Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company on March 15, 1985.• 1985 Microtek introduces the

world's first 300-dpi black-and-white sheetfed scanner.


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