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In this chronological timeline you can see some of the milestones that have passed through the years. It is both computer models that exist in the museum and such memorable computers that hopefully can be found here soon, as well as other events of importance. For example, when a certain processor or any operating system was introduced.
In order to easily see what is what, there is a color mark as follows;
computers in the museum is green
computers in my wishlist is red
Other hardware is blue
Program is orange
Everything else is black
Since I don't know when during a year a certain event took place, you can find computers and other things in alphabetic order for the respective years.
| 1805 | The Jacquardmachin, a punch-card controlled loom invented by the frenchman Joseph-Marie Jacquard | |
| 1822 | Engelsman Charles Babbage constructed a mechanical difference engine | |
| 1906 | The first radio tube | |
| 1911 | Several companies where merged into Computing Tabulating Recording Company, which was transformed to IBM, International Business Machines Corporation 1924 | |
| 1924 | IBM - see above | |
| 1944 | Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), called the Mark I in collaboration between Harvard University and IBM | |
| 1946 | ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), was the first general-purpose electronic computer | |
| 1947 | The invention of the first transistor | |
| 1949 | EDSAC, Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, in Cambridge,
England, perhaps the first real computer. SEAC, Standards Eastern Automatic Computer, in Washington, USA |
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| 1950 | BARK (Binär Automatisk Relä Kalkylator(Binary Automatic Relay Calculator)) at KTH in Stockholm | |
| 1951 | UNIVAC (U N I Versal A utomatic C omputer I ), the first commersial computor | |
| 1953 | BESK (Binary Electronical Sequence Calculator) at KTH in Stockholm was for a while the fastest computer in the world | |
| 1956 | SARA (Saabs Räkne-Automat (Saabs Calculating-Automat)), electron
tube equipped was for a while the fastest computer in Europe SMIL (Siffermaskinen I Lund(Calculatin Machine In Lund, Sweden)) |
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| 1962 | The transistorised D21 by Datasaab was launched. A total of 30 items were sold. | |
| 1965 | Moore´s law on the doubling of the number of transistors on an integrated circuit (CPU) every two years (later revised to every 18 months) | |
| 1966 | The D22 by Datasaab with integrated circuits was launched. A total of 70 items were sold. | |
| 1969 | ARPANET. Communication between four supercopiters. Many believes that the Internet was born out of ARPANET | |
| 1970 | Service of notes (and gossip) via the ARPANET. The seed to e-mail was sown. | |
| 1971 | CP/M operating system was written by Gary
Kildall Intel 4004, the first CPU NCP, Network Control Protocol, began to be used on the ARPANET |
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| 1972 |
Atari is based by Nolan Bushnell |
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| 1973 | Datainspektionen (The Data Inspection Board in Sweden) was set
up to give permission for and oversee the establishment of different
personal registers. Datalagen and Datakungörelsen (The data law and the data notification in Sweden) was established to protect individuals against the unauthorised intrusion of privacy. England and Norway joined the ARPANET Scelbi-8H, micro computer kit |
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| 1974 | Intel 8080 Mark-8, article on how to build a microcomputer TCP, Transmission Control Protocol, the first specification published |
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| 1975 | Altair Sphere 8800, the first "home
computer" (?) BASIC was written by Bill Gates and his teacher Paul Allen to the Altair 8800 IMSAI 8080 Link Microsoft founded by Bill Gates and the teacher Paul Allen MOS 6501 MOS 6502 |
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| 1976 | Apple Computer founded by Stephen Wozniak and Steve Jobs Apple I MOS Technology KIM-1 Link Rockwell AIM 65 Link Zilog Z80 |
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| 1977 | Apple II Commodore PET 2001 Link Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 Telercas Telmac 1800 (Finnish !! computer kit) Link |
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| 1978 | Atari 400 o 800, introduced. However, sold -79 Epson MX-80, matrix printer Intel 8086 Luxor ABC 80 Link Motorola 68000 |
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| 1979 | Acorn Atom Link Apple ][ plus Link Atari 400 Atari 800 Link Commodore PET 200 Link Texas Instruments TI-99/4A Link Visicalc, the first spreadsheet |
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| 1980 | Commodore PET 4032 Link Philips P2000T Link Sinclair ZX80 Link |
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| 1981 | Commodore VIC20 Link IBM PC in cooperation with IBM and Microsoft Osborne 1 Link Sinclair ZX81 Link |
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| 1982 | Applied Technologies Microbee Link Commodore 64 Link Dragon 32 Link EACA Colour Genie EG 2000 Link Intel 80286 Lambda 8300 Link Luxor ABC 800 Link Sinclair ZX Spectrum Link Sord M5 Link |
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| 1983 | Acorn Electron Link Apple IIe Link Apple Lisa Atari 600 XL Link Atari 800 XL Link Casio FP-1000 & FP-1100 Link Commodore PET 700 Link Compaq Portable Ericsson Step One Link Facit DTC Link IBM and Microsoft begin cooperation on OS/2 IBM PC Junior IBM PC XT Link Jet Computer Jet 80 Link Kaypro 10 Link Lotus 1-2-3 Luxor ABC 802 Link Luxor ABC 806 Link PC nominated to man of the year!! by Time magazine Sharp MZ-700 Link Sharp PC-5000 Link Spectravideo SV 318 Link Spectravideo SVI 328 Link V-tech Laser 200 Link V-tech Laser 210 Link Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 Link TCP/IP on the internet instead of the previous NCP Toshiba HX-10 Link Tomy Tutor |
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| 1984 | Apple Macintosh with GUI, Graphical User Interface in an attentioned
commersial Commodore 116 Link Commodore 16 Link Commodore plus/4 Link Commodore SX-64 Link Dell, Michel, starting a mail order company from his student apartment DNS, Domain Name System, is introduced on the Internet Epson PX4 Link Epson PX8 Link Ericsson PC Link GoldStar FC200 Link Motorola 68020 Oric Atmos 48K Link Panasonic JB 3300 Link Philips VG 8020 Link Sharp PC-5500 Link Sinclair QL Link Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ Link Sony Hit Bit HB-75P Link Spectravideo SVI 728 Link |
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| 1985 |
Aldus PageMaker (later Adobe PageMaker) |
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| 1986 | Amstrad PC 1512 DD Link Apple Macintosh Plus Link Bondwell 8 Link Bondwell PRO8T Link Compaq Portable II Link IBM Convertible 5140 Link |
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| 1987 | Apple Macintosh SE Link Atari 1040 STFM Link Atari MEGA ST2 Link Commodore Amiga 500 Link Motorola 68030 Sinclair ZX Spectrum +3 Link Toshiba T1200 Link Toshiba T3100 Link Toshiba T3200 Link |
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| 1988 | Amstrad PPC 640 Link Cambridge Z88 Link Compaq SLT/286 Link Daewoo Perfect Link Tetris from Spectrum Holobyte introduced |
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| 1989 | Apple Macintosh IIci Link Apple Macintosh IIcx Link Apple Macintosh Classic Link Apple Macintosh Portable Link Apple Macintosh SE/30 Link Atari Portfolio, the first hand-held computer Link Epson Q150A Portable Link Intel 80486 Toshiba T1000SE Link Victor V86P Link |
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| 1990 | Apple Macintosh IIsi Link Apple Macintosh LC Link Sound Blaster Pro Delux, the first stereo soundcard Toshiba T5200 Link Windows 3.0 Zenith SupersPORT 386SX Link |
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| 1991 | Apple Macintosh Classic II Link Apple Powerbook 100 Link Apple Powerbook 170 Link Atari MEGA STe Link IBM PS/2 L40SX (8543-044) Link IBM PS/2 Note N33SX (8533-W14) Link Microsoft DOS 5.0 with many news QuickTime |
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| 1992 | Amstrad Notepad NC100 Link Apple Macintosh IIvx Link Apple Macintosh LC II Link Apple Macintosh Performa 400 Link Apple Powerbook Duo 230 Link Commodore Amiga 600 Link Commodore Amiga 1200 Link Windows 3.1 |
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| 1993 | Apple Macintosh LC 475 Link Apple Macintosh LC III Link Apple Macintosh Performa 450 Link Apple Newton Intel Pentium |
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| 1994 | Compaq Contura Aero 4/25 Link Netscape Navigator in beta-version |
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| 1995 | Internet café at Hogia, one of the first in Sweden Microsoft Internet Explorer Windows 95 |
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| 1996 | USB 1.0 was launched Windows CE for hand-held computers |
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| 1997 | Intel Pentium II | |
| 1998 | Apple iMac, the first computer to offer USB ports Windows 98 |
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| 1999 | Apple iMac in five translucent colors and a round mouse Intel Pentium III The Y2K bug haunt around the corner |
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