HISTORY OF COMPUTERS TIMELINE BY: JEREMY MASTERSON 2 ND PERIOD

COMPUTER DEVELOPMENT 1960 The precursor to the minicomputer, DEC´s PDP-1 sold for $120,000. Hackers at MIT were intrigued by this, and created the first video game for the computer, the SpaceWar! Creators then used the game as a standard demonstration on all 50 computers.

COMPUTER DEVELOPMENT 1970 Xerox opens Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). In 1970, Xerox Corporation hired Dr. George Pake to lead a new research center in Palo Alto, California. PARC attracted some of the United States’ top computer scientists, and produced many groundbreaking inventions that transformed computing—most notably the personal computer graphical user interface, Ethernet, the laser printer, and object-oriented programming. Xerox was unable to market the inventions though.

COMPUTER DEVELOPMENT 1980 Broderbund is founded. In 1980, brothers Doug and Gary Carlston formed a company to market the games Doug had created. Their first games were Galactic Empire, Galactic Trader and Galactic Revolution. They continued to have success with popular games such as Myst (1993) and Riven (1997) and a wide range of home products such as Print Shop, language tutors, etc. In 1998, Broderbund was acquired by The Learning Company which, a year later, was itself acquired by Mattel, Inc.

COMPUTER DEVELOPMENT 1990 Video Toaster is introduced by NewTek. The Video Toaster was a video editing and production system for the Amiga line of computers and included custom hardware and special software. Much more affordable than any other computer- based video editing system, the Video Toaster was not only for home use. It was popular with public access stations and was even good enough to be used for broadcast television shows like Home Improvement.

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