Turning Points in Computer Education - History of Computing: Learning from the Past - page 166

Table 1. ( Continued)

1945 Von Neuman report on EDVAC,

first BUG reported by Grace hopper

1946 ENIAC built, inspiring EDSAC,

BINAC, IAS, AVIDAC

1947 Transistor tested

1949 EDSAC built

1951 UNIVAC in USA, LEO in UK, first

commercial computers

1952 Grace Hopper first compiler, IBM

releases IBM726 magnetic storage

1955 First transistorised computer,

TRADIC, at Bell Labs

1957 FORTRAN, DEC corporation and

Sperry Rand created

1960 LISP and Quicksort released Aussie starts High School - no

computing.

1961 IBM has 81% of computer market

1966 HP 2115 released with BASIC,

ALGOL and FORTRAN

Aussie starts University -
FORTRAN Programming

1969 RS232 protocol and UNIX released

1970 Xerox PARC opened, ARPANET

created

Aussie teaches FORTRAN in High
School using punched cards in first
year of teaching. Enrols in graduate
computer course

1971 First Intel microprocessor, first

email

1972 8008 processor made

1973 Ethernet released and first personal

computer not in a kit (Micral)

1974 Mouse invented by Xerox

1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen license

BASIC as the language for the
Altair 8800

American starts High School, DP
classes seen as “shop”