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Principles of Information Technology

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Introducing Computers

Technology Timeline!

Visit the following website:

http://www.scsite.com/dc2003/index.cfm?fuseaction=main&module=time&chap=3
1. Save to your class folder on your H:\drive as Your Name-Technology Timeline.
Simply add your name to the beginning of the file and keep the rest of file name!
2. For each year, key an historical fact about technology.
3. Summarize your answers (No more than two lines). Do NOT Copy/Paste. Set font type
to Times New Roman or Cambria; font size 12.
4. Do not print. READ STEP 5 for turn-in directions. Then, close your file.
5. Turn into SFiles/TurnIn folder by Copy/Paste from your H:\drive folder into the TurnIn
folder for S:\B Havekost \Principals of IT \Technology Timeline folder.
Year
Historical Fact-Summarized

Answers

1937

(Color text or shade column with a light color)

Dr. John V. Atanasoff and C lifford Barry desgined and built the first electroic digital
computer called the ABC.

1943

Alan Turing designs colossus a computer to crack German codes.

1945

Dr. John von Neumann wrote a paper about how memory holds data and stores programs
becomes the foundation for all computers after.

1946

Dr. John W, Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr make the first large scale electronic purpose
general computer the ENIAC.

1947

William Shockley, Walter Brattain, and John Bardeen invent the transistor to replace
vacuum tubes and ended up revolutionizing computers.

1951

The UNIVAC I is introduced as the first commercially available electronic digital

computer.

1952

Dr. Grace Hopper writes a paper about how to program a computer with symbolic notation
that had been used.

1953

The IBM model 650 becomes one of the first widely used computer system and Core
Memor y provides more storage capacity then vacuum tubes.

1957

RAMAC is the first to use a magnetic disk for external storage and FORTRAN

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1958

Introducing Computers
Jack Kilby invents the intergrated circuit making high speed computers with large memory
capacity possible.

1959

IBM introduces two small desk sized computers the IDM 1401 for business and the
IBM1602 fro scientist.

1960

Dr. Grace Hoper and others create COBOL to program computers.

1964

The IBM system/360 is the first family compatible computer merging science and
business.

1965

Dr. John Kemeny leads development for BASIC the programming language that will be
used in personal computers.

1968

Alan Shugart from IBM is the first person to use an 8- inch floppy disk , Dr Edsger
Dijsktra introduces the concept of structured programming .

1969

ARPANET the older version of the internet is established I BM pa ves the way for software
firms to rise after announcing that they will sell their software separately.

1970

The fourth generation computers that use chips that use LSI (Large-Scale-Integration)
arrive.

1971

Dr. Ted Hoff of Intel Corp. develops the micro processor.

1975

MITS advertises the first microcomputer named the altair after a Star Trek episode.

1976

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak develop the first apple computer and it is adop ted by a
variety of schoo ls.

1979

VisiCalc made by Bob Frankston and Dan Bricklin is developed and will eventually be
seen as the most important reaps for the acceptance of the personal computers.

1980

Bill Gates is given the opportunity to make the operating system for the IBM personal
computer and the Winchester hard drive revolutionized storage for personal computers.

1981

The IBM Pc is introduced to the market launching IBM into the personal computer market

1982

Hayes introduces a 300 bps smart mode m which is an immediate success and a lot more
computers are sold then the previous year Compaq, Inc is founded to make IBM
compatible Pcs.

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1983

Introducing Computers
Lotus 1-2-3 a spreadsheet software becomes the best selling program for IBM computers

1984

Hewlett-Packard introduces the first Laser Jet printer for personal computers IBM
introduces their personal computer The Pc AT

1987

Computers that posses power only held by bigger systems before are introduced.

1988

Microsoft becomes the worlds top software vendor

1989

The Intel 486 becomes the worlds first 1,000,000 transistor

1991

World Wide Web becomes a way to link documents

1992

Microsoft releases Microsoft 3.1 the latest version of Microsoft

1993

Several computers are released by different companies with the Pentium microprocessor

1994

Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen found the first web browser

1995

Microsoft releases Windows 95

1996

Personal computers are accessible to almost anyone in the U.S PalmPilot a handheld
personal organizer and it stands out because of its low price and Microsoft releases
Windows NT

1997

Microsoft bought $150,000 of Apple stocks and Intel introduces the Pentium II

1998

Compaq industry becomes the second largest computer firm by buying their competition
and Microsoft is asked to sell Windows without internet explorer

1999

Intel releases Pentium III Microsoft introduces Windows 2000

2000

Shawn Fanning and others make it possible for computers to swap music files and
Microsoft ships Windows 2000 and Windows Me to make the customers experience better

2001

The world is enhanced by technological advances that help in many areas

2002

Microsoft launches .NET that makes a lot of things easier for the people Intel ships
Pentium 4 chip with the .13 micron processor operating at speeds of 2.2 Ghz

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