Computer history and/or computer history is enough into the antique one.

Antique one

• Abacus, oldest mechanical computing aid.
• Abacus of the Pythagoras.
• 1. Jh. v. Chr.: Computer of Antikythera, premature computation machine (the slide rules similarly, only by far more complex) with only in 18. Century rediscovered differential gearing. That served at that time well-known planets for the course computation.

17. Century

• 1614 John Napier publish its table of logarithms.
• 1623 first four-species machine by William sending pool of broadcasting corporations.
• A calculating machine builds 1642 Blaise Pascal.
• A calculating machine, which does not add decimally, develops 1668 Samuel Morland, but is co-ordinated with the English money system.
• 1673 calculating machine of Gottfried Leibniz.

18. Century

• 1703 Gottfried Leibniz invents binary number system (binary system)

19. Century

• 1805 Joseph Marie Jacquard develops punch cards, in order to steer looms.
• The "“Arithmometer"” builds 1820 Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar, the first computer in mass production.
• The difference machine (English Difference engines) develops 1820 Charles Babbage 1822 and the Analytical engine 1833, cannot it however from shortage of money not build.
• 1843 EDP pool of broadcasting corporations and George Scheutz builds the first mechanical computer in Stockholm after the ideas of Babbage.
• A method develops and writes 1843 Ada Lovelace for programming for the computer of Babbage thereby the first computer program.
• 1890 US census with the help of the punch card system accomplished by Herman Hollerith; Torres y Quevedo builds a chess machine, which can set a king with king and tower matt.

20. Century

• 1935 internationally Business Machines present IBM 601, a punch card machine, which can accomplish a multiplication/a second. Are sold to approx. 1500 pieces of the machine.
• 1937 Konrad Zuse announce two patents, which already describe all elements of of Neumann architecture in such a way specified.
• 1937 Alan Turing publishes an article, which describes the "“Turing machine"”.
• 1938 Konrad Zuse finish the Zuse Z1, a freely programmable mechanical computer, which was never fully functional however due to problems with the manufacturing precision. The Z1 had already floating decimal point calculation. It was destroyed in the war and manufactured again later after original plans manufactured, the parts on modern milling and turning lathes. This reproduction, which is located to German technology in the museum, Berlin, the Z1 is mechanically fully functional and has a computing speed of 1 cycles per second (an arithmetic operation per second)
• 1937 John Atanasoff build one of the first digital computers, the Atanasoff Berry computer together with the graduate student Clifford Berry.
• 1938 Claude Shannon publishes an article over it how one can implement symbolic logic with relays.
• During the Second World War Alan Turing gives the crucial references to the decoding of the ENIGMA codes and builds for it a special mechanical computer. Likewise in the war Konrad Zuse builds the first functional program controlled, binary calculating machine, consisting of a large number of relay, the Z3. At the same time in the USA similar electronic machines to the numeric computation are built. Also machines on similar basis are provided.
• 1941 Konrad Zuse finish the Z3, which today as the first functional computer is considered.
• 1943 IBM boss Thomas J. Watson says allegedly: "“I believe, it give a world-wide need at perhaps five computers."”
• Park the first "“Colossus"” finishes 1943 Tommy Flowers with its team in Bletchley.
• 1944 completion of the ASCC (AUTOMATIC Sequence control LED computer, "“Mark of I"” by Howard H. Aiken).
• 1944 the team around pure old weber finish a decoding machine for the coding equipment M-209 of US armed forces. To the architecture of the calculating machines Z1 and Z3: http://www.zib.de/zuse/Inhalt/Kommentare/Html/0687/0687.html.

Post-war period

• 1946 ENIAC (electronics Numerical integrator and computer) under the direction of John Eckert and John Mauchly one develops.
• 1947 IBM build the SSEC.
• 1947 invention of the transistor.
• 1947 are created the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as a first scientific society for computer science.
• 1949 present to Berkeley, founder of the ACM, the first digital, programmable computer for the Heimgebrauch Edmund C. Simon consists of 50 relays and in shape by structural drawings is driven out, by which in the first ten years of its availability over 400 copies are sold.
• 1949 Maurice Wilkes presents with his team in Cambridge the "“EDSAC"” (electronics Delay STORAGE AUTOMATIC computer); on John von Neumanns EDVAC it is based the first computer, which is completely with stored program.
• The Zuse Z4 finishes 1949 Steve Kolberg, whose building was already begun 1942 and 1944 in substantial parts was final, which could not be finished however war conditionally.
• By the company Zuse kg is supplied with to 1950 the Z4 to the ETH Zurich and goes there into enterprise.
• 1951 UNIVAC I, commercial tube computer the EDGE corporation.
• 1955 TRADIC, first computer, which is completely with transistors equipped instead of tubes. Built of the Bell's labs for US air Force.
• 1955 OPREMA of first computers of the GDR.
• 1956 first magnetic disk system of IBM (RAMAC, "“random ACCESS Method OF Accounting and control"”).
• 1959 Siemens begin Siemens with the distribution of the 2002, first and completely computer manufactured manufactured in series on basis of transistors.

Sixties

• 1960 IBM 1401, transistorisierter computer with magnetic tape system.
• 1960 DECs (Digital Equipment corporation) first minicomputer, which appears PDP-1 (programmable data processor).
• 1962 Telefunken AG deliver the first TR 4.
• The minicomputer PDP-8 for under 20,000 dollar builds 1964 DEC.
• 1964 IBM define the first network architecture S/360, computer of different performance classes can the same code implement.
• 1964 developed with Texas Instruments first "“integrated circuit"”, IC.
• To 1966 D4a 33bit Auftischrechner DO Dresden.
• 1968 HEWLETT-PACKARD apply the HP-9100A as "“personal computer"” in the Science expenditure from 4 October 1968.

Seventies

• 1970 Intel build 4004 the first microprocessor manufactured in series (2250 transistors) with that.
• 1971 Telefunken supply the TR 440 to that German computing centre Darmstadt, as well as to the Universities of Bochum and Munich.
• goes to 1972 the Illiac IV, a supercomputer with array processors into enterprise.
• 1973 Xerox Alto - the first computer with mouse, GUI and inserted Ethernet map.
• 1973 begin the French company R2E with the distribution of the Micral.
• 1974 Hewlett-Packard present the first programmable pocket calculator with the HP-65.
• 1974 Motorola build processor for the 6800; Intel builds processor for the 8080.
• 1975 MITS begins with the distribution of the old air 8800.
• brings 1976 the company Apple to computers Apple the I on the market; Zilog develops the Z80 processor.
• 1977 Ken Olson, president and founder of DEC says: "“There is no reason, why someone wanted to have a computer at home."”
• 1977 Apple II, the Commodore PET and the Tandy TRS 80 comes on the market.
• the VAX-11/780, a machine brings 1978 DEC particularly for virtual memory addressing, on the market.
• 1979 Atari brings his computer models 400 and 800 into the shops. It is revolutionary that several Custom chips relieve the main processor.

Eighties

• 1980er: Bloom time of the home computers, first with 8-bit microprocessors and a main memory to 64 KB (Commodore VC20, C64, Sinclair ZX80/81, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, cutter CPC 464/664), later also more efficient models with 16-Bit or 16/32-Bit-Mikroprozessoren (e.g. Amiga, Atari ST).
• 1981 IBM present the IBM-PC (personal computer) and determine thereby crucially the further development.
• 1982 Intel bring the 80286-Prozessor on the market.
• 1982 Sun Microsystems develop the Sun-1 workstation.
• 1984 of the Apple Macintosh come on the market and set new yardsticks for user friendliness.
• 1985, January Atari place the ST-computer on the CES in read out Vegas.
• 1985, July Commodore produce the Amiga home computer.
• 1986 Intel bring the 80386-Prozessor on the market; Motorola presents the 68030-Prozessor.
• 1988 NEXT ones, Steve job, joint founder of Apple, presents the computer of the same name.
• 1989 Intel bring the 80486 on the market.

Nineties

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• 1991 the AIM consortium (Apple, IBM, Motorola) specify the power PC platform.
• 1992 DEC presents the first systems with the 64-Bit-Alpha-Prozessor.
• 1993 Intel bring the Pentium processor on the market.
• 1994 Leonard Adleman presents with the TT-100 to the first prototypes for a DNA computer.
• 1995 Intel bring the Pentium pro processor on the market.
• 1995 Incorporated present the BeBox.
• 1999 Intel build the supercomputer ASCI talk with 9.472 processors.
• 1999 AMD presents the successor of the K6-Prozessorfamilie, to the Athlon.

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