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Jan 1, 1200
1st Calculator : Abacus
Who : The Chinese
Why : Compute Somple Math Problems **** THE ABACUS WAS INVENTED IN 3000 B.C. **** -
1st Mechanical Computer
Why : Solve Polymonial Equations
Who : Charles Babbage -
1St Digital Computer
Why : A Computer That Performs Calculations /Logical Operations With Quantities Represented As Digits (Usually Binary System)
Who : George Stibitz -
1st Electronic Computer
Who: British
When : December 1943
Why ; Code Breaking -
1St Stored Program Computer
Who : F. C. Williams and Tom Kilburn
Why : The 1st Computer To Store A Changeable User Program In Electronic Memory And Process It At Electronic Speed. -
1St Transistor Computer
Who : University Of Manchester
When : 1953
Why : Could Perform Millions Of Logical Operations Every Second -
1St Minicomputer
Who : Sun Microsystems, IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
Why : They Were Used In Manufacturing Processes/Handling Email That Was Sent And Received By A Company -
1St Apple Computer
Who : Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
Where : USA
Why : To Make Computing Easier -
1St Laptop/Portable Computer
Who : Briton, William Moggridge, for Grid Systems Corporation/Adam Osborne,
Where : NASA
Why : memory lap-top computer with die-cast magnesium case and folding electroluminescent graphics display screen -
1St Work Station
Why : Intended primarily to be used by one person at a time, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating systems
Who : Unkjnown -
1St Personal Computer
Who : IBM Representatives Met For The First Time With Microsoft's Bill Gates
Why : To Talk About Writing An Operating System For IBM's New "Hush-Hush "Personal" computer
Where : Boca Raton, Florida -
1St PC
Who : IBM Representatives Met For The First Time With Microsoft's Bill Gates
Why : To Talk About Writing An Operating System For IBM's New "Hush-Hush "Personal" computer
Where : Boca Raton, Florida -
Present Day Computers
Why : To search the internet and type documents and enjoy use for recreational activity etc.
When : 21th Century
Where : USA -
1St Multimedia Player
Why : high multimedia performance, enabling rich multimedia experience
Who : Van Houweling*
Where : USA- = The information from the link I Chose did not give an offical creator of the product
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Future Of Computers
Computers will be more advance and smaller. for example, Apple computers will continue getting smaller and faster.
