First
Spacewalk - 1965
Soviet Cosmonaut Alexel Leonov
Arpanet (beginning of the internet) - 1969
Charley Kline
sent the first data-packets from UCLA while trying
to connect to Stanford, Research institute.
Unix (computer operating system) - 1969
Floppy disk - 1970
Intel Introduces the Microprocessor - 1971
First Rover Lands On Moon -
1971
The small car, dubbed the "Lunar Roving Vehicle" was
deposited
on the moons surface by the Apollo 15.
Space station - 1971
Last Moon Walk - 1972
Eugene A. Cernan was the last man to walk on the moon.
Pong (first computer game) - 1972
Post-it note - 1974
Push-through tab on drink can - 1975
Laser printer - 1975
Personal computer - 1975
Although some may think that the very first personal computer was the
Xerox Alto built in 1973, which included a mouse, high resolution graphics,
high capacity drives, and excellent software, they're wrong.
The very first Personal Computer was built in 1949, and was entitled
"Simon". It sold for about $300 - but wasn't the best computer. The
computer that started the trend, and gave way to Microsoft was the
MITS Altair. The first official public Personal Computer was introduced
in 1975, entitled MITS Altair. With it's reasonable price ($400) and it's
64kB of memory, this was the way to start the trend!!!!
The Altair was sold by Ed Roberts, the president of MITS, by mail-order.
Since the Altair wasn't reasonably easy to use, even though BASIC
(developed 10 years earlier) was the primary language, they weren't that
popular. But also in 1975, Paul Allen and Bill Gates (a student at Harvard)
decided to write a scaled down version of BASIC to use on the Altair, and
at that moment, Microsoft was born.
Unfortunately, Ed Roberts had to sell his company due to cash flow
problems in 1977, and then went on to become a doctor. If only he
would have known.
Many breakthroughs in PC's occured after that and they are still
happening! But the first computer, in our eyes, had to be the MITS Altair -
which if it did not happen, we may not be where we are today.
