Milestones in computer development

n1951 A.D.:  Eckert & Mauchly build the first general-purpose computer, the UNIVAC I

n1958:  IBM introduces the 7090 series, first to use transistors

 n1975 A.D.:  The Altair, the first microcomputer, is introduced

                                                The Cray-1, the first supercomputer, is announced

                                            1981 A.D.:  IBM introduces its own PC

     n1984 A.D.:  Apple introduces the Macintosh

 

 

 

 

 

          

n1991 A.D.:  The internet is commercialized

n1994:  Netscape Navigator 1.0 is released; the WWW takes off

1995 A.D.:  Sun releases Java 1.0; object-oriented programming takes off

n1997 A.D.: UNO CS Department adopts Java as object-oriented language support