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CSAIL at MIT is formed

Computer defeats master chess player

Japan's Fifth Generation Computer Systems project abandoned

Checkers is Solved

Squee: The Robot Squirrel

LMI Lambda

The Turing Test

Robby the Robot

C3PO and R2D2 in Star Wars

Quicksort algorithm

Victor Scheinman´s Stanford Arm

The Rancho Arm

Automatically Programmed Tools (APT)

The Tentacle Arm

The Stanford Cart

Shakey the robot

Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov

3C DDP-116 introduced

Grimsdale and Webb build early transistorized computer

The Atlas Computer debuts

The Computer Programme debuts on the BBC

Steve Wozniak completes the Apple-1

Commodore introduces the VIC-20

Osborne 1 introduced

NEAC 2203 goes online

Minuteman I missile guidance computer developed

RAND Corporation completes Johnniac computer

Direct keyboard input to computers

Raspberry Pi, a credit-card-size single board computer, is released as a tool to promote science education

IBM introduces its Personal Computer (PC)

First Computer Program to Run on a Computer

Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 Computer

Librascope LGP-30 introduced

Manchester Mark I completed

MIT LINC introduced

SAGE system goes online

Ferranti Mark I sold

Sony Vaio series is begun

Xerox PARC Alto introduced

The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) is completed

Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) makes its debut

Laser printer invented at Xerox PARC

IAS computer operational

Compaq Computer Corporation introduces the Compaq Portable

J. Lyons & Company introduce LEO-1

Acorn Archimedes is released

The Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) introduced

PowerMac G5 is released

PC's Limited is founded

IBM SCAMP is developed

Apollo Computer unveils its first workstation, its DN100

The Video Display Module (VDM-1)

IBM ships its Model 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine

ILLIAC IV project begins

First Univac 1 delivered to US Census Bureau

Lenovo acquires IBM's PC business

Southwest Technical Products introduces the SWTPC 6800

RCA announces its Spectra series of computers

DEC announces Alpha chip architecture

Laser 128 is released

John von Neumann writes First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC

CDC 6600 supercomputer introduced

Scelbi advertises its 8H computer

Apple introduces the Lisa computer

SEAC and SWAC completed

IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer is completed

The DEC VAX introduced

Teletype introduced its ASR-33 Teletype

NPL Pilot ACE completed

Bell Laboratories scientist George Stibitz uses relays for a demonstration adder

MITS Altair 8800 kit appears in Popular Electronics

HP introduces the HP 2116A

The MacBook Air is released

IBM releases the first commercial RISC-based workstation

RISC PC is released

Amdahl Corporation introduces the Amdahl 470

Palm Pilot is introduced

Wang Laboratories releases the Wang 2200

Commodore introduces the Commodore 64

IBM 650 magnetic drum calculator introduced

DEC PDP-1 introduced

RCA introduces its Model 501 transistorized computer

Macintosh Portable is introduced

BeBox is released

One Laptop Per Child initiative begins

EDSAC completed

Apple Watch

PowerBook series of laptops is introduced

Atari introduces its Model 400 and 800 computers

Intel Paragon is operational

Apple Computer launches the Macintosh

Project Whirlwind begins

Apple ships the first Newton

SABRE comes on-line

The Sinclair ZX80 introduced

MOS 6502 is introduced

Sun Microsystems is founded

Franklin releases Apple II “clones”

IBM releases its PC Jr. and PC/AT

MIT researchers build the TX-0

Public unveiling of ENIAC

Arduino

The first Bombe is completed

Bell Labs Relay Interpolator is completed

Micral is released

Texas Instruments TI 99/4 is released

IBM 7030 (“Stretch”) completed

Moore School lectures take place

Plans to build the Simon 1 relay logic machine are published

Digital Equipment Corporation introduces the PDP-8

IBM announces System/360

Hewlett-Packard introduces the HP-35

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs unveils the NeXT Cube

Tandy Radio Shack introduces its TRS-80

Compaq introduces the Deskpro 386 system

MADDIDA developed

University of Michigan Micro Mote is Completed

Computer Space is released

SIGGRAPH is founded

Pixar is founded

Atari launches the Video Computer System game console

DAC-1 computer aided design program is released

BEFLIX developed at Bell Labs

First computer scanned image on SEAC

Lucasfilm produces The Road to Point Reyes

Alexander Douglas writes OXO for EDSAC

Lucasfilm produces the Genesis Effect for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Ralph Baer designs the Brown Box

Video Toaster is introduced by NewTek

Terminator 2: Judgment Day opens

Arnie Katz, Joyce Worley-Katz, and Bill Kunkle form first video game magazine, Electronic Games

La Faim (Hunger) debuts

EverQuest is released

Fantasy game Myst is released

SuperPaint is completed

Nvidia releases Cuda GPU

Creative Arts releases the first SoundBlaster

Higinbotham develops Tennis-For-Two at Brookhaven National Labs

Spacewar! debuts

Nimrod on display at Festival of Britain

Atlas computer

First IBM computer to use semiconductor memory

Apollo Guidance Computer read-only rope memory

Signetics 8-bit RAM

RAMAC

Magnetostrictive delay lines

IBM 3480 cartridge tape system

IBM 726 Magnetic tape

Shugart 5 ¼-inch flexible disk drive

UNIVAC UNISERVO tape drive

CD-ROM

Bryant Chucking Grinder Company magnetic disk drive

IBM 2321 Data Cell Drive

Magnetic drum memory

EDSAC

Flash memory

Commodore 1530 Datasette

ILLIAC IV supercomputer

IBM 2314 direct access storage facility

ROM chips

IBM 3340 data module

Whirlwind core memory

Seagate ST506 hard disk drive

2001: A Space Odyssey released

Lejaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson complete the Illiac Suite

UNIVAC computer predicts election

Movie Tron released

Alphaville released

First computers installed in the White House

“First actual case of bug being found”

Project TACT launched

Dean Koontz publishes Demon Seed

Max Mathews and Joan Miller use MUSIC IV to create Daisy Bell

TIME announces “Machine of the Year”

CSIRAC plays the Colonel Bogey march

Jurassic Park released

Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand trial begins

Term ‘cyberspace’ coined

Tin Toy wins Oscar

The Matrix released

MIT Media Lab founded

Apple 1984 commercial debuts

IBM switches to electronics

IBM’s Deep Blue defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov

Wired Magazine debuts

Computer-animated Homer Simpson appears on The Simpsons

Diary of a Camper machinima created

Star Trek debuts with multiple computation devices

Michael Jackson's Black or White video premieres

Grace Hopper completes A-0

Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) is Demonstrated

Plankalkül (Plan Calculus)

John Backus completes Speedcode

COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language)

Ivan Sutherland publishes Sketchpad

WordStar is created

Visicalc is developed

Scratch is publicly released

MATH-MATIC

PDF Format Released

Seymour Papert designs LOGO

The C++ Programming Language is published

Simula is written by Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl

SRI designs ERMA