The Micro-Computer Era

Name: The Micro-Computer Era
Author: Michel Garlandat

By: Michel Garlandat

From Altair to IA

Features & Capabilities

COMPLETE TIMELINE Over 27 key milestones across 7 major eras: the precursors (Micral N, Altair 8800, Microsoft), the explosion of 1976-1982 (Apple I and II, Atari 2600, VisiCalc, Commodore 64), IBM and the clone era (IBM PC, MS-DOS, Compaq, Macintosh), software and networks (Windows, PageMaker, World Wide Web, Linux, Mosaic), Internet and multimedia (Windows 95, Google, Napster, dot-com crash), the mobile and cloud era (iPod, iPhone,AWS, iPad), and finally artificial intelligence (deep learning, voice assistants, ChatGPT, Claude).

MACHINE GALLERY 11 landmark machines with Wikipedia photos, date, inventor and detailed profile: Altair 8800, Apple II, Commodore 64, IBM PC 5150, Apple Macintosh 128K, Nintendo NES, NeXT Cube, iPhone (1st generation), Raspberry Pi, Amazon EC2, NVIDIA CUDA GPU.

INTERACTIVE QUIZ 15 randomly shuffled questions to test your knowledge of personal computing history. Real-time score, answer feedback, unlimited restarts.

BILINGUAL FRENCH / ENGLISH Switch instantly between both languages with a single tap.