What major innovations have affected computers during their development?

Answer 1

Some innovations (or improvements) are: replacing CRT displays with TFT screens, replacing 3.5in disc drives with optical drives, increased hard-drive capacity through improvements in electronic components.

Answer 2

The dates are approximate:

Use of gears and cogs. (c.200bc)

Use of valves. (1940's)

Ferrite core memory (1940's)

punched card (1950s)

punched tape (1950's)

networking (1950's)

Transistorisation. (1950's)

Microprocessors (1960's)

Magnetic tape(1960s)

Packetised data (1960's)

Dynamic RAM based on capacitor junctions (1960's)

Devopment of ARPAnet (1960's)

Enthusiast Kit computers(1970's)

Surface mount technology(1970's)

X.25 protocol (1970's)

Development of UNIX (1970's)

Cheap home computers (1980's)

Use of Laser Disc technology to store data (1980's)

Robotics (1980's)

TCPIP (1980's)

Development of radio based networks (1980's)

Use of CD players to store data (1980's)

The devlopment of RISC processors (1980's)

Microsoft DOS

Development of worm drives (1990's)

Microsoft Windows 95 (1995)

Use of DVD recordings to store data (2001)

Nanotechnology (2000+)

Molecular size PN junction research (2000+)

Light based processors (2009+)

Quantum computing (2011+)

Answer 3

They are much smaller and much faster than when the first were invented.

Answer 4

Some of them include faster processing; faster and more data storage; computer screens; mice; keyboards; networks; programming languages.

Answer 5

the mac and other stuff, yupp:)