Lexikon's History of Computing

Photo Gallery: Selected Early Machines by Date

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This list is a sampling of machines in various time periods. Not every machine built during that time period is listed. Also, some dates reflect the year the machine was announced by the manufacturer, which is sometimes different than the year the machine is actually produced and/or shipped. This means in some cases the year stated might be off by 1 year when compared to other reference sources. In most cases, we select the earlier of the two possible years, since it reflects the year the machine was at least in the design/development stage.

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Pre- 1900

Abacus

Schickard's Machine (1623)

Pascalline calculator (1642)

Leibniz Wheel (1671)

Jacquard's Punched Card Loom (1801)

Scheutz Calculating Machine (c1855)

Colmar Arithmometer Mechanical Adding Machine (1870)

Odhner Arithmometer (1886)

Hollerith Punched Card Tabulator (1890)

Graphic Typewriter (1895)

1900 - 1939

Lightning Adding Machine (1908)

Brunsviga Mechanical Calculator (1910)

Burroughs Adding Machine (1911)

Comptometer Adding Machine (1920)

Loga Calculator (1920)

TIM (early) mechanical calculator

Marchant calculator (1920)

Powers Company Plain Sorter (1920's)

Electric Card Sorting Machine (1920)

Dalton Adding Machine (1920s)

Listing Totaling Machine (circa. 1920's)

Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine

Brandt Automatic Cashier (1926)

1939 - 1959

Differential Analyzer (Bush) (1931)

Z3 Computer (1939)

ABC-Computer (1940)

Bombe (U.S. Codebreaking Machine) (1943)

IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (1944)

ENIAC Computer Photos - Volume I (circa 1946)

IBM 604 Calculator, Pluggable Unit (1948)

IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (1948)

Whirlwind (MIT) computer (1949)

SEAC (National Bureau of Standards computer - 1950)

SWAC (National Bureau of Standards computer - 1950)

Bendix G15 Computer (1950s)

UNIVAC 1 - Full View - A (1951)

UNIVAC 1 - Full View - B (1951)

UNIVAC 1 - At the Census Bureau (1951)

UNIVAC 1 - (Grace Hopper) (1957)

LEO Computers (UK) (1950s)

EDVAC Computer (1952)

IBM 701 Computer (1952)

IBM 650 Computer (1953)

IBM 704 Computer (1953)

TX-0 Computer (1953)

Datatron Computer Console (1953) by Electrodata

IBM 705 Computer (1954)

DATAmatic 1000 Large Scale Data Processing System (1955)

UNIVAC File Computer (1956)

IBM 305 RAMAC Computer (1956)

NCR 304 - First All Solid State Business Computer (1957)

IBM 709 Computer (1957)

IBM 1401 Computer (1959)

1960-1970

DEC PDP-1 Minicomputer (1960)

Litton Automated Business Machine (1960s)

UNIVAC 1107 (1961)

DEC PDP-8 (1964)

CDC-6600 Computer Console (1964)

EAI Analog Computer (1964)

IBM-System/360 (1964)

UNIVAC 9200 (1966)

UNIVAC 9300 (1966)

RCA Spectra 70 Data Processing System (1966)

DEC PDP-12 (1969)

IBM System/3 Minicomputer (1970)

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