A timeline of computing power by JP Mangalindan Computers have become sleeker and faster since the early days of ENIAC. Track the history of computing power from 1946 to the present.

The personal computer industry began in 1977, when Apple, Radio Shack and Commodore introduced off-the-shelf computers as consumer products. People were very surprised walking by store windows ...

Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data in 1971 to sell their computer traffic-analysis systems. 1972: Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel ...

Doug Engelbart demonstrates in 1968 a word processor, an early hypertext system and a collaborative application: three now common computer applications. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce found Intel ...

A unit can be seen at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. Here, an IBM storage device boasting a whopping 5Mb of space is being loaded onto a plane while a group of onlookers wonders ...