Address: http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm Created by Bronson, Shepherd, and Dimitry. 1936-First freely programmable The ABC computer computer. Invented by Konrad Zuse witch became the Z1 computer. 1942-was first in the computing biz invented by John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry witch became the ABC computer 1954- The first successful high level programming language. Invented by John Backus & IBM witch became the FORTRAN Computer Programming Language. 1955-The first bank industry computer also MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) for reading checks. Invented by Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America, and General Electric witch came to be the Erma and MICR. QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. 1970-The world's first available dynamic RAM chip. Created by Intel 1103 named computer memory. 1893- The Apple IIe is introduced. The computer contains 64 kilobytes of RAM one megahertz 6502 processor and running Applesoft BASIC and sells for $1,400. 1947/48- This device was not a computer but it affected the timeline. It was invented by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley. This is a transistor that as used in most computers. 1962-The first computer game invented. Made by Steve Russell and MIT witch was called the Space wars5. QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. 1991- Major changes among PC dealers as ComputerLand acquires Nynex's computer stores, CompuCom acquires Computer Factory, ValCom and Inacomp merge, JWP buys Businessland and Intelligent Electronics acquires BizMart. 2007- apple releases the I phone invented by William Frances Jones, Steven Anthony fell, and Hirwin alfrado. wich is like a small computer with email and internet and phone capabili