Life In The 50s

What would life be without the long, not so easy history of computers development in the last few decades? In the ‘50s, IBM made new products that started the work of computers to begin to rise. Examples, in 1953, IBM introduces the 701 to the public. It was IBM's first electric computer and first mass-produced one. Also; in 1956 the IBM 305 RAMAC was released. It was the first computer to be shipped with a hard drive. The hard was capable of storing 5 million characters. In the ‘60s, most computer programs and networks were created. As of, in 1960, Hoare developed Quicksort, which was an algorithm became one of the most used sorting method in the world. For more information, in 1969, ARPA net was created. It was the first large scale, general

For example, in 1972, the first commercial video game (Pong) was created and released. In that year also, the first compact disk (CD) was created in the United States of America. In the ‘80s, more home computers became more common and began to evolve. In 1984, Macintosh, first successful computer to feature a graphical interface and mouse, was created by Steve Jobs. Also in 84’, Macintosh, first successful computer to feature a graphical interface and mouse, was created by Steve Jobs. In 1990, Microsoft Windows 3 was released and became rather well known since it was very easy to understand. In the 90s, Microsoft 3 was released and it made Microsoft household name. Almost all PCs began to run on Microsoft Windows 3. Two years later, Microsoft Windows 3.1 and 3.1.1 were created and were very much alike like Apple Macintosh, which had been the most common PC. Microsoft Windows 3 spread more. In the 2000s, Apple, like Microsoft had done, was released and became well known. In 2001, Apple released OS X 10.0 (Cheetah). With it only costing $129.00 it rose and pushed the original Mac OS away, with its new OS based on UNIX