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Charles Babbage had the first idea for the computer.
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Herman Hollerith entered a contest to see who could make the fastest computer. He used a punch card design.
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The punch card system and the vaccum tubes were used to make some of the earliest electronic computers.
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Tommy Flowers spent 11 months designing the Colossus and it was sent to london to be assembled in 1943, it was finished in january 1944.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen start microsoft and release windows 1.0.
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Steve Job's company Apple realesed the first commercial computer.
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Industires that grew as a result of the computer are: computer manafacturing companies, commerce on the internet, email, and computers sellers.
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We think that computers are going to be more portable and be more capable of doing harder tasks. I think that there are going to be computer as thin as a phone but as powerful as a super computer.
