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