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.