If you were ever wondering how the personal PC got started and when it all began here is a brief history lesson illustrating the key events in the computer evolution.

1958
Texas instrument complete building the first integrated circuit.

1960
Digital Equipment introduce the first mini pc, the PDP-1, for $120,000. It is the first commercial computer equipped with a keyboard and monitor.

1963
Douglas Engelbart invent the mouse.

1964
At Dartmouth College the BASIC program language runs for the initial time.

1968
Robert Dennard gets a obvious for a one-transistor DRAM cell and the basic plan in the three-transistor cell. (Dynamic RAM)
Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce found Intel Corporation.
Hewlett-Packard introduce first programmable scientific desktop calculator.

1969
Superior Micro strategy (AMD) is founded.
IBM build SCAMP, one of the world's first private pc.

1970
Intel begin work on the layout of the circuit for what would be the 4004 microprocessor.
Bell Labs develop UNIX.

1972
Intel introduce its 200 kHz 8008 chip.
Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie expand the C program language.

1973
The first operational Alto pc is finished at Xerox PARC.

1974
Intel release its 2 MHz 8080 chip, an 8-bit microprocessor.

1975
Bill Gates begin writing BASIC for the Altair.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen start Microsoft.
IBM's opening Level system unit unveils the IBM 5100 Portable Computer.

1976
Steve Wozniak and Steve job end work on a PC circuit board, called the Apple I computer.
Steve job and Steve Wozniak include the Apple PC Company.

Higher Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel sign a patent cross-license agreement, giving Advanced Micro Devices the right to copy Intel's processor microcode and

instruction codes.

The deal name Microsoft is registered.
Bill Gates drops out of Harvard to devote his full notice to Microsoft.

1977
Bill Gates drops out of Harvard to devote his full notice to Microsoft.
Apple pc releases Applesoft, their version of BASIC.

1981
IBM free their is new computer, named the IBM PC.
Microsoft releases the MS-DOS working system.

1983
Apple introduce the first computer with a GUI (graphical user interface) called the Apple Lisa.

1984
Apple releases the minor Macintosh pc.

1985
Microsoft release its first Windows working system.