The History of Computers
by José Gaxiola
1. The Antikythera mechanism is a calculator
1.1. It's 2000 years old
2. The Leibniz Step Reckoner - 1673
2.1. The first four fuction calculator!
3. The Apple Macintosh
3.1. This was the competition of the IBM Personal Computer
4. Through the 1980's to 2000's computers became much more powerful.
4.1. These were still monitors, keyboards and mice!
5. In 2007 born the Smartphone
5.1. This combined a mobile phone with an Internet connected touch screen...
6. The first tablet computer
6.1. In 2010, It was innovative and hugely influential
7. MSDOS - 1980
7.1. An operating systeam for a new PC!
8. Pac-Man - 1980
8.1. An addictive video game!
9. Commadore 64 - 1982
9.1. The Highest selling computer of all time! 64 kilobytes of ram.
10. Mac OS - 1984
10.1. This Operative system brought the graphicla interface!
11. Windows 1.0 - 1985
11.1. It could multitask and had more graphical support!
12. HTML - 1990
12.1. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications.
13. PhotoShop - 1990
13.1. The first photoshop had no layers but had filters, brushes and file types.
14. The WWW - 1991
14.1. The World Wide Web or Web, is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
15. Intel Pentium - 1993
15.1. It's the sucesor of the intel 486. It started from being the top of the line processor a the time.
16. The Playstation1 - 1994
16.1. The PlayStation is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment
17. Windows 95 - 1995
17.1. It is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of operating systems.
18. Charles Babbage's Difference Engine
18.1. Designed in 1849. 8,000 parts, 5 tons, 11 feet long
19. Curta Calculators
19.1. Popular from the 1940's through to the 1970's. These had up 600 moving parts!
20. Electronic computers
20.1. These were made in the 1940's
21. The Colossus
21.1. This was the world's first programmable, electronic and digital computer!
21.1.1. It was used by British in the Second World War.
22. Computers with microprocessors and microchips in the 1970's.
23. The IBM Personal Computer
23.1. This led the way in the 1980's
23.1.1. It was very sucessful!
24. The Turing Machine
24.1. 1939 -The first computer engineered to combat the encriptions made by Nazi's enigma machine....
25. The Eniac - 1946
25.1. Consists of vaccum tubes. This was big and calculated artilery firing tables.
26. The modem - 1950's
26.1. These were used by US Air Force, but the first commercial ones were made a decade later!
27. The first Hard Drive - 1957
27.1. The RAMAC
27.1.1. Held 5mB of data and was so big!