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Timeline of Computer History

Year Highlights

I, Robot book cover

Isaac Asimov's I, Robot

1950

IBM 360 Model 40

IBM announces System/360

1964

Simon featured on the November 1950 Scientific American cover

Plans to build the Simon 1 relay logic machine are published

1950

Nokia 1011, first common GSM phone

GSM standard formally agreed

1987

HP-35 handheld calculator

Hewlett-Packard introduces the HP-35

1971