var tabTxtz = new Array ("The most ancient known handbooks of arithmetic describing the procedures for carrying out operations,the Sumerian tablets|4000 BC|", "The abacus, using beads strung on wires and mounted in a frame, is in widespread use in China|1300|", "The quipu, a system of knotted strings, is in extensive use by Peruvian Incas|1500|", "Wilhelm Schickard, in a letter to Johannes Kepler, gives the first known description of an automatic adding machine|1623|", "Blaise Pascal invents the Pascaline|1643|", "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's calculator mechanized multiplication as well as addition|1674|", "Joseph Marie Jacquard begins work on an automatic loom that used punched cards to control the manufacturing process|1801|", "Thomas de Colmar builds the Aritmometer|1820|", "Babbage begins designing the Analytical Engine|1838|", "Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace, publishes a description of Babbage's analytical engine that incorporates many of the concepts of modern computer programming|1843|", "George Boole publishes Laws of Thought , which leads to what will be called Boolean algebra|1854|", "George Barnard Grant exhibits a full-sized Difference Engine |1876|", "William S. Burroughs develops his printing adding machine|1885|", "Herman Hollerith's method of using punched cards to tabulate data is used in the U.S. census of 1890|1889|", "Herman Hollerith starts the Tabulating Machine Co., essentially the world's first computer company, which would eventually become International Business Machines (IBM)|1896|", "Ferdinand de Saussure,one of the founders of modern linguistics, publishes 'Course in General Linguistics '|1916|", "T.J. Watson renames to 'IBM' the Computing Tabulating Recording Co|1924|", "Vannevar Bush of MIT developes the differential analyzer, a large analog computer|1930|", "Konrad Zuse, a German mechanical engineer, begins building a mechanical computer (Z1)|1936|", "George Stibitz, a research mathematician at Bell Telephone Laboratories, builds a binary adder out of a few light bulbs, batteries, and wire on his kitchen table|1937|", "William Hewlett and David Packard found Hewlett-Packard|1938|", "ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer) by John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry, uses radio valves (vacuum tubes) as switches|1939|", "Colossus operational - built by T.H. Flowers, M.H.A. Newman - 1500 valves|1943|", "The Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, also called the Mark I, finishes development with Harvard University|1944|", "Hungarian John von Neumann participates in the creation of the EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer), a computer capable of storing programs internally and using electronic speed|1945|", "J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly unveil ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator) at the University of Pennsylvania's |1946|", "Jay Forrester uses iron cores for the main memory in M.I.T.'s 'Whirlwind'|1947|", "The Harvard MARK II, an expensive machine that is considerably faster than the MARK I, goes into operation, again under the direction of Howard Aiken|1947|", "William Shockley, Walter Brattain, and John Bardeen successfully test the first transistor|1947|", "'Short Order Code', developed by John Mauchly, is thought to be the first high-level programming language|1949|", "The first computer sold commercially in the United States, the UNIVAC|1951|", "Grace Murray Hopper implements the first compiler, the 'A-0'|1952|", "The IBM 305 RAMAC and 650 RAMAC machines are launched. The 305 is the first magnetic hard disk for data storage|1956|", "IBM publishes the first version of FORTRAN (formula translator) and begins work on FORTRAN II. The influential FORTRAN, created by a team led by John Backus, will be considered the first true high-level programming language|1957|", "Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) is founded|1958|", "Bell’s development of the Modem data phone enables telephone lines to transmit binary data|1958|", "A team drawn from several computer manufacturers and the Pentagon develop COBOL, Common Business Oriented Language|1959|", "John McCarthy develops Lisp (List Processing) for Artificial Intelligence applications|1959|", "DEC unveils PDP-1, first large scale production computer with a monitor and a keyboard|1960|", "ALGOL 60 the first block-structured language, appears|1960|", "The first video game is invented by MIT graduate student Steve Russell. It is soon played in computer labs all over the U.S|1962|", "The American National Standards Institute accepts ASCII 7-bit code for information exchange|1963|", "IBM announces the System/360 third-generation line of computers|1964|", "Basic (Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is developed at Dartmouth by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz|1964|", "Doug Engelbart creates the first mouse|1964|", "DEC debuts the first minicomputer, the PDP-8, which used Transistor circuitry modules|1965|", "Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard at the Norwegian Computing Centre complete a general-purpose version of the language Simula, the first object-oriented language|1967|", "Intel is founded by Robert Noyce, Andy Grove and Gordon Moore|1968|", "AMD is founded|1969|", "The US Department of defense commissions ARPANET for research networking, and the firts four nodes become operational|1969|", "AT&T Bell Labs programmers Kenneth Thompson and Dennis Ritchie develop the UNIX operating system on a DEC minicomputer|1969|", "The team of Ted Hoff, S.Mazor and F.Fagin develops the Intel 4004|1971|", "Niklaus Wirth releases the Pascal language adding the capability to define new data types out of simpler existing ones, and supported dynamic data structures|1971|", "Ray Tomlinson and Newman send the first e-mail message|1971|", "Alan Kay is one of the inventors of the Smalltalk programming language and one of the fathers of the idea of Object Oriented Programming|1971|", "Intel releases 8008, soon replaced by 8080|1972|", "At Bell Labs Dennis Ritchie develops the C language|1972|", "Researchers at Xerox PARC develop an experimental Personal Computer (PC) called Alto that uses a mouse, Ethernet, and a graphical user interface |1973|", "IBM develops the Winchester, what is considered to be the first true sealed hard disk drive|1973|", "At Xerox's PARC, Charles Simonyi develops first WYSIWYG application, named BRAVO|1974|", "CP/M operating system is developed by Gary Kildall|1976|", "Seymour Cray found Cray Research and introduces the Cray-1, the fastest computer in the world at that time|1976|", "IBM presents the System 32,|1976|", "Steve Wozniak designs the Apple I, a single-board computer. He and Steve Jobs got their start in business|1976|", "Apple II is released and becomes a success|1977|", "Bill Gates and Paul Allen cofound Microsoft|1977|", "DEC introduces the VAX 11/780, a popular computer for scientific applications|1978|", "Intel ships the 16 bit 8086|1978|", "Don Bricklin and Bob Franston develop the first spreadsheet: Visicalc|1979|", "Motorola presents the 68000 CPU|1979|", "IBM introduces it's Personal Computer, running the Microsoft's PC-DOS|1980|", "Microsoft ships PC-DOS 1.0|1980|", "The first computer viruses are developed|1981|", "Apollo Computer unveils the first workstation, the DN100|1981|", "The 6502 based VIC-20 is the first color computer that cost under $300. It is also the first computer to sell one million units|1981|", "Adam Osborne sells Osborne Books to McGraw-Hill and starts Osborne Computer. The first 'portable', ever is built, the Osborne 1|1981|", "John Warnock develops Postscript the page descripting language;Adobe Systems is founded by him and Charles Geschke|1982|", "Lotus 1-2-3 for the PC IBM is announced|1983|", "The TCP/IP is completed signing the beginning of a global Internet|1983|", "At AT&T Bell Labs, Bjarne Stroustrup works on C++, an Object Oriented extension of the C language|1983|", "Apple announces the Macintosh|1984|", "First CD-ROMs are unveiled by Sony and Philips|1984|", "Intel starts shipping the 80286 16 bit CPU|1984|", "Windows 1.0 is developed by Microsoft|1985|", "Robert Scheifler and Ron Newman from MIT and Jim Gettys from DEC develop the first UNIX windowed GUI: X-Windows|1985|", "Intel announces the 80386 processor|1985|", "Apple engineer William Atkinson designs HyperCard, an interactive tool for software development|1987|", "World Wide Web is proposed by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN|1989|", "Intel ships the 80486 CPU|1989|", "Silicon Graphics, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark, ships IRIS: it's the birth of 3D Graphics|1989|", "Microsoft Windows 3.0 hits the market|1990|", "Archie, the grandfather of all search engines is created by Alan Emtage|1990|", "The PowerPC consortium is established by IBM, Motorola and Apple |1991|", "DEC introduces the first 64 bit RISC CPU Alpha|1992|", "Linus Torvalds from a version of UNIX (called Minix) develops LINUX|1992|", "Marc Andreessen develops the first version of x-mosaic at NCSA|1993|", "Intel Pentium CPU is born|1993|", "The Apple Newton is the first popular hand held personal digital assistant (PDA)|1993|", "Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen cofound Netscape Communications(earlier Mosaic Communications)|1994|", "Dave Cutler develops Microsoft's platform of choice for high-end systems, Windows NT. It is intended for use in network servers and workstations|1993|", "Apple's Power Macintosh computers marks the successful transition of RISC into the mainstream personal computer market|1994|", "Netscape's first browser is shipped|1994|", "David Filo and Jerry Yang start Yahoo |1995|", "The Java programming language is developed by SUN|1995|", "Microsoft Windows 95 is launched|1995|", "Intel releases Pentium II processor |1997|", "DVDs are released (Hitachi, JVC, Matsushita, Mitsubishi, Philips, Pioneer, Sony, Thomson, Time Warner, and Toshiba) |1997|", "W3C finalises XML 1.0 to act as foundation for future Internet projects|1998|", "Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin |1998|", "Intel releases Pentium III processor |1999|", "AMD ships Athlon processor |1999|", "World Wide Web exceeds one billion document mark|2000|", "With the release of Pentium IV, the PC processor reaches 2 GHz speeds|2001|", "Apple introduces Mac OS X|2001|", "Dell computer becomes the largest PC manufacturer|2001|", "Microsoft launches Windows XP|2001|", "Intel introduces the Pentium M |2003|", "Apple announces Intel's processors switch |2006|", "Intel ships Core Duo Processor, with 151 million transistors |2006|" );