Computer Science: Development

 

 

In this chapter, we will discuss the development in Computer Science chronologically.

The following table lists down the development −

Year

Development

1959

Transistors: IBM 7090; IBM 1401

1962

NPN transistor

1963

Mouse; CMOS patented

1964

CDC 6600; IBM Data Cell Drive

1966

Integrated circuits: HP 2116A

1966

Apollo Guidance Computer

1969

Honeywell 316

1971

8" floppy disk; ILLIAC IV

1973

Micral first microprocessor PC

1980

Sinclair ZX80, Seagate hard disk drive

1981

IBM PC, Acorn BBC Micro

1983

Apple Lisa; 3.5" floppy

1984

Apple Mac; Apple Lisa 2

1988

Dell

1989

NeXT

1991

Apple Switches to PowerPC

1992

HP 95LX; Palmtop PC

1995

IBM Deep Blue chess computer

1996

USB 1.0

1997

Compaq buys Tandem; CD-RW

1998

iMac

2000

USB 2

2001

Apple iPod

2005

Mac Mini

2006

Apple transition to Intel

2007

iPhone 1

2008

USB 3.0

2010

Apple iPad

2012

IBM zEnterprise System