"Year","Hardware"
"1959","IBM makes first transistor computer"
"1960","DEC PDP 1"
"1961","Fairchild resistor transistor logic"
"1962","NPN transistor"
"1963","Mouse; CMOS patented"
"1964","CDC 6600; IBM Data Cell Drive"
"1965","DEC PDP 8; IBM 1130"
"1966","integrated circuits: HP 2116A;[3] ILLIAC IV"
"1967","Fairchild built first MOS; Englebart applies for mouse patent"
"1968","Data General Nova"
"1969","Honeywell 316"
"1970","DEC PDP 11"
"1971","8\" floppy disk"
"1972","Atari founded; Cray Research founded"
"1973","Micral first microprocessor PC"
"1974","Altair 8800; Data General Eclipse"
"1975","Olivetti P6060"
"1976","Tandem Computers"
"1977","Apple II; 5.25\" floppy"
"1978","DEC VAX 11"
"1979","Atari 400, 800"
"1980","Seagate hard disk drive"
"1981","IBM PC"
"1982","Commodore 64"
"1983","Apple Lisa; 3.5\" floppy"
"1984","Apple Mac; Apple Lisa 2"
"1985","PC Limited"
"1986","Tandem Nonstop VLX"
"1987","Thinking Machine CM2; Tera Computer Founded"
"1988","Dell"
"1989","NeXT"
"1990","ETA10"
"1991","Apple Switches to PowerPC"
"1992","HP 95LX; Palmtop PC"
"1993","Intel PPGA"
"1994","VESA Local Bus"
"1995","IBM Deep Blue chess computer"
"1996","USB 1.0"
"1997","Compaq buys Tandem; CD RW Drives"
"1998","iMac"
"2000","USB 2"
"2001","Apple iPod"
"2003","Power Mac G5"
"2004","iMac G5"
"2005","Mac Mini"
"2006","Apple transition to Intel"
"2007","iPhone 1; Mac Book Pro"
"2008","USB 3.0; iPhone 3G"
"2009","Apple Xservve"
"2010","Apple iPad"
"2011","Iphone 4S"
"2012","iPhone 5; IBM zEnterprise System"
"2013","iPhone 5C; iPhone 5S"
"2014","iPhone 6"

