HISTORY OF
COMPUTING
Jade O’Malley
TIMELINE
 1936- Konrad Zuse - Z1 Computer First freely programmable computer..
 1944- Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper. The Harvard Mark 1 computer Harvard Mark Computer.
 1951- UNIVAC Computer First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners.
 1953- . IBM 701 EDPM Computer enters ‘ the history of computers’.
 1964-. Computer Mouse & Windows.
 1969- The original Internet.
 1971- Faggin, Hoff & Mazor The first microprocessor.
 1976/77- Apple I, II & TRS-80 & Commodore Pet Computers
 1981- IBM home computer.
 1984- Apple Macintosh Computer.
 1985- Microsoft Windows
 Konrad Zuse (German: 1910–1995) was a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer. His
greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3,
which became operational in May 1941.
 Zuse was also noted for the S2 computing machine, considered the first process-controlled computer. He
founded one of the earliest computer businesses in 1941, producing the Z4, which became the world's first
commercial computer. From 1943[1] to 1945[2] he designed the first high-level programming language. In 1969,
Zuse suggested the concept of a computation-based universe in his book Rechnender Raum (Calculating
Space).
 Much of his early work was financed by his family and commerce, but after 1939 he was given resources by
the Nazi German government. Due to World War II, Zuse's work went largely unnoticed in the United
Kingdom and the United States. Possibly his first documented influence on a US company was IBM's option on
his patents in 1946.
HISTORY OF MICROSOFT
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Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. The history of Microsoft began on April 4,
1975, when it was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque. Its current best-selling products are the
Microsoft Windows Operating System and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software.
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In 1980, Microsoft formed a partnership with IBM that allowed them to bundle Microsoft's operating system
with IBM computers, paying Microsoft a royalty for every sale. In 1985, IBM requested that Microsoft write a new
operating system for their computers called OS/2 ; Microsoft wrote the operating system, but also continued to
sell their own alternative, which proved to be in direct competition with OS/2. Microsoft Windows eventually
overshadowed OS/2 in terms of sales. When Microsoft launched several versions of Microsoft Windows in the
1990s, they had captured over 90% market share of the world's personal computers.
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The company has now become largely successful. As of 2008, Microsoft has a global annual revenue of US$
60.42 billion and nearly 90,000 employees in 105 countries. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a
wide range of software products for computing devices.
 On april fools day in 1976 Steve Wozniak and Steve jobs released
the apple computers. The apple 1 was the first with a single circuit
board used in a computer. The first home computer with a GUI or
graphical user interface was apple Lisa. With the 1984 apple
Macintosh Steve jobs made sure developers created software for the
new Macintosh computer.
 In 1968, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore were two unhappy
engineers working for the Fairchild Semiconductor Company who
decided to quit and create their own company at a time when many
Fairchild employees were leaving to create start-ups. People like
Noyce and Moore were nicknamed the "Fairchildren".
 International Business Machines, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is
a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered
in Armonk, New York, United States. The company is one of the few information
technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century.
IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software (with a focus on the
latter), and offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in
areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. Ginni Rometty is the
president and CEO of IBM.
 In 1972, the first commercial video game console that could be played in the
home, the Odyssey was released by Magnavox and designed by Ralph Baer
The Magnavox Odyssey is the world's first video game console. It was first
demonstrated in May 1972 and released that fall, predating the Atari Pong home
consoles by several years. The Odyssey was designed by Ralph Baer, who had a
working prototype finished by 1968. This prototype, known as the "Brown Box", is
now at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in
Washington, D.C.
 The Internet is based on many technologies developed for
ARPANET in the 1960s and 1970s. The first ARPANET link was
established between a computer at UCLA and another one at the
Stanford Research Institute on October 29, 1969. By the end of 1971,
there were fifteen computers on the network.
1957.
 The Internet is based on many technologies developed for
ARPANET in the 1960s and 1970s. The first ARPANET link was
established between a computer at UCLA and another one at the
Stanford Research Institute on October 29, 1969. By the end of 1971,
there were fifteen computers on the network.
1957.