Computer History

Milestone years, culled from a variety of sources. If you search the net you will find dozens of chronologies, so why compile yet another? Sadly most seem more determined to show that the digital computer was developed in their own country by their own company than they are to correctly attribute the pioneering work of individuals. For example, the bizarre legal ruling in an American court in 1971, that the Atanasoff-Berry Computer was not the first digital computer, in favour of ENIAC's claim. A legal ruling reversed in 1973 after a lengthy court trial. So now you can be sued for denying that Iowa State University's slogan Birthplace of the Electronic Digital Computer is true!