[2016] CINDI KAM: Computer Timeline

1801:In France,Joesph Marie Jacquard invents a loom that uses punched wooden cards to automatically weave fabric designs.Early computers would use similar punch car.

1936:Alan Turing presents the notion of a univeral machine,later called the Turing machine,capableof computing anything that is computable.The central concept of the modern computer was based on his ideas.

1953:Grace Hooper develop the first computer language.

1964:Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern computerwith a mouse and a graphical user interface.

1971:Alan Shugart leads a team of IBM engineers who invent the "floppy disk" allowing data to be shared among computers.

1948:First computer program to run on a computer by Frederic William,Tom Kilburn,and Geoff Toothill

Now:Apple created the IMAC computer

1976:Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs paired up and formed the Apple computer.

Computer Timeline By: Cindi Kam

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1941:Atanastoff and his graduate student,Clifford Berry, design a computer that can solve 29 equations.This marks the first time computer is able to store into on its main memory.

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