History of Technology

This Apple machine introduced us to the GUI (graphical user interface) and mouse in 1984.

• iMac
• MacIntosh
• Kindle
• CSIRAC

World's first commercially produced computer, it predicted weather and the 1952 election.

• ASCI Red
• ENIAC
• UNIVAC
• Palm Pilot

Apple's attempt at a PDA (personal digital assistant), it was first to feature handwriting recognition.

• Raspberry Pi
• Apple II
• Kindle
• Newton

Developed by Amazon, it began as a bookreader; now it's an Android based tablet.

• Palm Pilot
• Newton
• Kindle
• iPad

Collecting data from paper tape, this large Australian computer was first machine to play music.

• CSIRAC
• Commodore 64
• UNIVAC
• Altair

Developed in the 1970s as a computer for hobbyists, this machine had no keyboard and used switches to input information.

• Apple II
• ASCI Red
• Commondore 64
• Altair 8800

Apple's revolutionary looking computer, released in 1998, was the first successful all in one machine.

• MacIntosh
• Apple II
• iMac
• Newton

Developed in the 1990s, this first generation PDA could keep a calendar, contacts, notepad, and had Graffiti handwriting.

• Palm Pilot
• Newton
• iPad
• Kindle

First electronic, general purpose computer. It was used for military research and took up a whole room.

• UNIVAC
• CSIRAC
• ENIAC
• ASCI Red

The first teraflop machine, built for the government in the 1990s, this machine studied & simulated nuclear attacks.

• ASCI Red
• Commondore 64
• ENIAC
• CSIRAC