Computing History Displays: Computer History Time Line

Here we are making the content of our Computer History timeline available on line. We cannot recreate the artistic experience of the actual sun-lit graphic panels but here is the same information in a different form.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Precursors of computers
• 3. Steps towards the first stored-program computers
• 4.0. Computers and Technology
• 4.1. The 1950s: Developing the technology
• 4.2. The 1960s: The age of IBM
• 4.3. The 1970s: Onward and upward
• 4.4. The 1980s: PCs and networks
• 4.5. The 1990s: The global village
• 4.6. After 2000: The future is now