Abbreviated Pictorial History
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| 5000 years ago: Abacus Earliest known "number cruncher" |
1642: Pascaline Blaise Pascal |
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| 1801: Jacquard Loom Programmable - musuem model |
1850: Babbage
Difference Engine First computer - museum model |
Difference Engine Closeup of number wheels |
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| 1940s: ENIAC First electronic computer |
1949: Edsac Had Stored Program |
1970s Punch Card Input device for computers |
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| 1960s: Memory Magnetic Core |
1974: MITS Altair 8800 Albuquerque - Bill Gates and Paul Allen |
1981: IBM PC The saga began |
NASA-Ames Research Center Super Computer