History to Computing

Difference Engine (1822)

A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.

World of Warcraft(2004)

After ten years as a series of strategy games, Blizzard Entertainment launches World of Warcraft, a Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) version of their popular Warcraft franchise.

The Colossus(1944)

Designed to break the complex Lorenz ciphers used by the Nazis during World War II. A total of ten Colossi were delivered, each using as many as 2,500 vacuum tubes.

CP/M(1979)

Gary Kildall develops the first commercially successful operating system for microcomputers, CP/M. He and his wife established Intergalactic Digital Research.

Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

He is known as the "Father of Computers." He developed the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine.

The Analytical Engine (1843)

The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer.

Manchester Mark 1(1949)

The Manchester Mark 1 was one of the earliest stored-program computers, developed at the Victoria University of Manchester from the Manchester Baby.

BeBox(1995)

Using dual PowerPC 603 CPUs, and featuring a large variety of peripheral ports, the first devices were used for software development.

Z3 Computer(1941)

A German electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse and was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer.