Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Vocational/Computer (General Conference)/1/en

1. Write 200 words or give a three-minute oral report about the history of computers.

1936

The first programmable computer is the Z1 originally created by Germany's Konrad Zuse in his parents living room in 1936 to 1938 is considered to be the first electrical binary programmable computer. The first digital computer, the ABC started being developed by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry in 1937.

1943

Then followed the ENIAC, then the EDSAC as the first stored program electronic computer.

1954

Toshiba introduces its first computer, the TAC digital computer.

1958

NEC builds its first computer, the NEAC 1101

1960

Digital Equipment Corporation released its first of many PDP computers, the PDP-1

1966

Hewlett Packard released its first general computer, the HP - 2115

1974

XEROX ALTO is considered to be the first workstation.

1975

Ed Roberts coined the term personal computer when he introduced the Altair 8800, although the first personal computer is considered to be the Kenback-1.

1981

IBM introduced the IBM PC.

1983

Compaq released its first computer and the first 100% IBM compatible computer, the Compaq Portable

1984

IBM PCD later released the IBM portable.

1985

Dell introduced its first computer, the Turbo PC

1994

IBM introduces the IBM thinkPad 775CD, the first notebook with an integrated CD-ROM. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded.

1995

Java is introduced. Hotmail is started

1998

Google is founded

2001

Window XP & Mac OS X are released

2004

Mozilla Firefox is released

2005

Xbox is released

2006

iMac is released. Wii is released

2007

Window Vista & Mac OS X Leopard are released

2009

Window 7 & Mac OS X Snow Leopard are released