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Computer History

  • 1868-73 - (QWERTY keyboard) - James Denmore
  • 1889 - Herman Hollerith patented electromechanical punch card tabulating system
    • 1911 - Hollerith Tabulating Machine Company merged with Computing Tabulating Recording Company to form International Business Machines (IBM)
    • 1943 - IBM and Harvard professor Howard Allen, complete the Mark I, first large scale automatic digital computer
    • 1946 - ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
    • 1948 - Transistors - William Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain
    • 1951 - UNIVAC - Universal Automatic Computer - Eckert and Mauchly for the Census Bureau
    • 1957 - Fortan - John Backus
    • 1958 - ALGOL Computer Language - Switzerland
    • 1959 - COBAL - Grace Murphy Hopper
    • 1962 - Microcomputer- Digital Corp
    • 1964 - BASIC computer language - Thomas Kurtz and John G. Kennedy
    • 1965 - Word processor- IBM
    • 1967 - Computer pioneer Doug Engelbart patents a mouse
  • 1968 - Intel: Andy Grove, Noyce, George Moore
  • 1969 - AMD: Jeremiah Jerry Sander
    • 1969 - Unix developed for Bell Laboratories
  • Sun Microsystems (Stanford University Network) - James Gosling (Stanford University)
  • Sun Microsystems (Stanford University Network) - Bill Joy (UC Berkeley)
  • 1969 - Pascal Computer languages- Nicklaus Wirth
  • 1970 - Computer Floppy disk - IBM
  • 1970 - Bar code System - Monarch Marking, US and Plessey Telecom, England
    • 1971 - Intel released the 4004
    • 1971 - Liquid crystal display- Hoffman LaRoche Lab, Switzerland
    • 1972 - Video disk - Philips Co, Netherlands
    • 1972 - Video Games - Nolan’s Bushnel
    • 1973 - Alto Computer - Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Complex - a graphical user interface (GUI)
  • 1973 - IBM (bar code scanner)
    • 1975 - First PC - MITS Altair 8800
    • 1975 - Microsoft founded by Bill Gates (Harvard University) and Paul Allen
    • 1976 - Apple Computer founded by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak
  • 1977 - Apple II - text and graphics in color
  • 1977 - RSI/Oracle
  • 1977 - Oracle Commercial RDBMS
  • 1981 - IBM PC - IBM 5150
  • IBM - Thomas Watson (Brown University)
  • Microsoft Windows 3.0 - (3 1/2 Floppy Disk) - (GUI)
  • 1982 - A+ Certification Computer Technician
  • 1983 - Oracle Portable RDBMS
    • 1984 - Oracle Portable SQL toolset
  • 1984 - Apple introduces the Macintosh computer (Lisa) - Graphical User Interface (GUI)
  • 1984 - Megabit Computer chip - IBM
  • 1984 - Cisco was founded in order to enable communication. In 1984, founders Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner
  • 1985 - CD- ROM - Hitachi, Japan
  • 1985 - AOL founded
  • 1986 - Oracle Client/Server RDBMS
  • 1987 - Oracle CASE tools
  • 1987 - IBM - OS 2 Warp Operating System
    • 1988 - Oracle 6 Released
    • 1990 - Oracle client based toolsets
  • 1991 - Linux operating system - Linux Torvalds (Finland)
    • 1991 - Oracle Parallel Server released
    • 1993 - Oracle CDE, Media Server
    • 1994 - Oracle 7 for the PC
    • 1995 - Windows 95
  • 1996 - Palm Pilot - handheld computer and personal information manager - touch screens
  • 1996 - Oracle Universal Server released
    • 1997 - IBM Deep Blue Beats Garry Kasparov
    • 1997 - Red Hat Linux 5.2
    • 1997 - IPv4
    • 1997 - Oracle 8 released
    • 1998 - Windows 98
    • 2000 - Windows NT - new technologies
    • 2000 - Microsoft splits into 5 departments
    • 2000 - Windows 2000
    • 2001 - Apple introduced Unix like system for Mac OS X
    • 2002 - The total number of personal computers, both desktop and laptop reach 1 billion
    • 2003 - Windows XP
    • 2003 - Microsoft Office / Microsoft Works
    • 2003 - Google - Gmail
    • 2005 - Windows Vista
    • 2005 - Apple used IBM Power PC chips
    • 2006 - Apple began using Intel chips
    • 2007 - Apple introduced the iPhone
    • 2007 - Amazon releases kindle
    • 2008 - Google Releases mobile operating system - Google - Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Stanford University)
    • 2010 - Apple sells 3 million iPad
    • 2010 - Windows 7
  • Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg (Harvard University)
    • 2012 - Windows 8 operating system
    • 2015 - IPv6
    • 2016 - Windows 10

Quantum Articles

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February 2, 2021 - Scientists Achieve 'Transformational' Breakthrough in Scaling Quantum Computers

February 6, 2021 - Scientists Fire Up a Commercially Available Desktop Quantum Computer

February 7, 2021 - IBM's roadmap for building an open quantum software ecosystem

March 29, 2021 - Honeywell says quantum computers will outpace standard verification in ’18 to 24 months’

March 29, 2021 - Fiber Optics Could Be the Key to Million-Qubit Quantum Computers

March 31, 2021 - ZDNet Quantum Computing