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A visual history of computing
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Georg von Peuerbach's "Tractatus super propositiones Ptolemaei de sinubus & chordis" (1468), the oldest extant book of mathematical tables
John Napier's "Bones" (1617)
John Napier's "Bones" (1617)
Schickard Calculator (1623)
Pascaline (1642)
Jacquard loom cards, invented by invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801, the predecessors of computer punched cards
Jacquard loom cards, invented by invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801, the predecessors of computer punched cards
Jacquard loom cards, invented by invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801, the predecessors of computer punched cards
Babbage Differential Engine 1 (1833)
Babbage Differential Engine 1 (1833)
Elizur Wright Arithmeter, Joseph Fowle (1869)
Lord Calculator, Elliott Brothers (1880)
Hollerith Electric Tabulating Machine (1890)
Hollerith Electric Tabulating Machine (1890)
Hollerith's Pantograph Card Punch (1900)
Paul Otlet's library of world knowledge Mundaneum (1910)
Burroughs Adding Machine (1912)
Felt & Tarrant's Comptometer (1890), the first keyboard adding machine invented in 1887 by Dorr Felt
IBM advert of 1933
IBM advert of 1933
IBM advert of 1933
IBM advert of 1933
John Turing, the mathematician who conceived the Universal Turing Machine (1937)
George Stibitz's Complex Number Calculator (1940), a relay-based computer for Bell Labs
Konrad Zuse' Z3 (1941), the first hardware implementation of the universal Turing machine
Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) at Iowa State Univ (1942) designed by John Atanasoff, consider the first real computer
Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) at Iowa State Univ (1942) designed by John Atanasoff, consider the first real computer
Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) at Iowa State Univ (1942) designed by John Atanasoff, consider the first real computer
John Atanasoff
Colossus Mark I (1943), designed by Tommy Flowers, the first programmable digital electronic computer
Colossus
Colossus
Colossus
Colossus
Conrad Aiken's Harvard Mark I (1944)
The ENIAC (1946), the first commercial computer
ENIAC's Portable Function Table
ENIAC
ENIAC
ENIAC
ENIAC
Invetors of the transistor (1948) at Bell Labs: John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain
William Shockley
The first transistor
Turing and his paper on machine intelligence (1949)
IBM's Type 26 card punch (1949)
IBM's Type 26 card punch (1949)
IBM's card sorter (1949)
John Von Neumann with Princeton's IAS stored-program computer (1951)
John Von Neumann and Robert Oppenheimer in front of the IAS (1952)
MIT's Whirlwind computer (1951)
MIT's Whirlwind computer (1951)
MIT's Whirlwind computer (1951)
Univac I (1951)
Univac I (1951)
Univac I (1951)
Univac I (1951)
Univac I (1951)
IBM's electromechanical data processor Type 403 (1953)
Rand Corp's Johnniac (1954), based on the IAS
Rand Corp's Johnniac (1954), based on the IAS
Rand Corp's Johnniac (1954), based on the IAS
US Government's SAGE project (1954)
SAGE
SAGE
SAGE
SAGE
SAGE
SAGE
SAGE
SAGE
SAGE
SAGE
SAGE
SAGE
SAGE
SAGE
SAGE
Regency TR-1 transistor radio (1954), the first transistor-based device for the mass market
IBM's RAMAC (1956), the first computer to use magnetic-disk storage
The RAMAC
IBM's RAMAC disc
Magnetic core memory board (1956)
Harry Huskey's CDC Bendix G-15 (1956)
Harry Huskey's CDC Bendix G-15 (1956)
John McCarthy's at Dartmouth (1956)
Founding fathers of Artificial Intelligence (1956)
General Problem Solver's team (1957)
Fairchild founders (1957)
Fairchild founders
A Fairchild integrated circuit
Jean Horni of Fairchild
Robert Noyce of Fairchild
Kilby's integrated circuit (1958)
Kilby's integrated circuit (1958)
Digital Equipment's PDP-1 (1960)
Digital Equipment's PDP-1 (1960)
Digital Equipment's PDP-1 (1960)
Digital Equipment's PDP-1 (1960)
Stanford Cart (1960)
Stanford Cart (1960)
Stanford Cart (1960)
Stanford Cart (1960)
Univac's Livermore Advanced Research Computer (LARC) for the Livermore Lab, a "supercomputer" to design atomic bombs (1960)
IBM's Stretch 7030 (1961)
IBM's Stretch 7030 (1961)
IBM's Stretch 7030 (1961)
Wes Clark's LINC (1962)
Wes Clark's LINC (1962)
LINC
LINC
Apollo Mission's computer logic (1962), one of the biggest users of integrated circuits
Douglas Engelbart, who invented the mouse (1963) at the Stanford Research Institute
IBM /360 (1964)
IBM /360 (1964)
IBM /360 (1964)
IBM /360 (1964)
IBM /360 (1964)
IBM/360
IBM/360
IBM/360
IBM/360
IBM/360
Seymour Cray's CDC 6600 supercomputer (1964)
Seymour Cray's CDC 6600 supercomputer (1964)
CDC 6600
CDC 6600
Moore's Law (1965)
Gordon Moore
Olivetti P101 (1965)
Olivetti P101 (1965)
Olivetti P101 (1965)
Olivetti P101 (1965)
Project Genie at UC Berkeley (1965)
Digital Equipment's PDP-8 (1965)
Digital Equipment's PDP-8 (1965)
Digital Equipment's PDP-8 (1965)
Dendral's team (1965)
Michael Noll 's "Vertical Horizontal" (1965)
Computer artist Howard Wise
Ivan Sutherland's head display (1968)
Ralph Baer's Brown Box (1968), the first home gaming console
Fairchild's 256-bit SRAM (1969)
Digital's PDP-11 (1970)
Digital's PDP-11 (1970)
Tymshare's machine room (1970), full of SDS 940 computers
Intel 1103: 1024-bit DRAM (1970)
The 8" floppy disk (1971)
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (1972), inventors of Unix
Unix plate
John Blankenbaker's Kenbak-1 (1971), the first commercially available personal computer (but it was not using a microprocessor)
The Kenbak-1
The Kenbak-1
Intel 4004 microprocessor (1971)
Intel 4004
Ted Hoff
Federico Faggin
Early pocket scientific calculators: Bowmar MX55 (1971), HP-35 (1972), Texas Instruments SR-50 (1974), HP-65 (1974)
Ralph Baer's Magnavox Odyssey (1972)
Computer artist Harold Cohen, inventor of AARON (1973), the artist machine
AARON in 1995
Xerox Alto (1973)
Xerox Alto's team
Mouse of the Alto
Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs, inventors of the Ethernet (1973)
Wang 2200 (1973)
Wang 2200
Motorola 68000 (1974)
The Homebrew Club (1974)
Ed Roberts' Altair 8800 (1975)
Ed Roberts' Altair 8800 (1975)
Ed Roberts' Altair 8800 (1975)
Ed Roberts of Altair
Bill Gates and Paul Allen, founders of Microsoft (1975)
IMSAI 8080 (1975)
IMSAI 8080 (1975)
IMSAI 8080 (1975)
Illiac IV parallel computer (1975)
Illiac IV parallel computer (1975)
Cray 1A supercomputer (1976)
Cray 1
The 5.25" floppy disk (1976)
Fairchild's Channel F Video Entertainment System (1976)
Atari Pong console (1976)
Apple I (1976)
Apple II (1977)
Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle (1977)
The founders of Oracle (1977)
Commodore PET (1977)
Commodore PET
Commodore PET (1977)
Commodore PET
Tandy TRS-80 (1977)
Tandy TRS-80 (1977)
Sol (1978)
Atari 2600 (1978)
Atari 800 (1978)
Digital's VT100 terminal (1978)
Steve Jobs and Apple II (1979)
Shakey, SRI's robot (1979)
Shakey
Shakey
Shakey at work
Shakey
Shakey
Shakey
Shakey
Shakey's team
Hubot (1981)
Osborne 1 (1981)
Osborne 1
IBM PC (1981)
Grid Compass (1982)
SUN 1 (1982)
Compaq Portable (1983)
Nintendo Entertainment System (1983), the console that introduced the game SuperMario
Apollo Domain (1984)
Apple Lisa II (1983)
Apple Macintosh (1984)
Macintosh and Lisa II
Macintosh and Lisa II
Psion (1984), the first personal digital assistant, the first hand-held computer
Omnibot 2000 (1984)
Omnibot 2000
Omnibot 2000
Robots of the 1980s
Officer Mac (1985)
Officer Mac (1985)
Sentry (1986)
Hero Jr
Sega Master System Power Base gaming console (1986)
Cisco's Advanced Gateway Server (1986)
Daniel Hillis' Connection Machine (1986)
Daniel Hillis
Connection Machine in operation
Grid Tablet (1989)
Marc Andreessen, who developed Mosaic (1993), the first browser for the World Wide Web
Palm Pilot (1996)
Palm Pilot's team
Palm Pilot's Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky
Blackberry 5810 (2002)
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