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
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