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First freely programmable computer.
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Who was first in the computing biz is not always as easy as ABC.
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The Harvard Mark 1 computer.
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20,000 vacuum tubes later...
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John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley/ No, a transistor is not a computer, but this invention greatly affected the history of computers.
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Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn/ Baby and the Williams Tube turn on the memories.
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John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly/ First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners
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International Business Machines/ IBM enters into 'The History of Computers'.
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John Backus & IBM / The first successful high level programming language.
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Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America, and General Electric/ The first bank industry computer - also MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) for reading checks.
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Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce/ Otherwise known as 'The Chip'
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Steve Russell & MIT/ The first computer game invented.
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Douglas Engelbart/ Nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end.
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The original Internet.
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The world's first available dynamic RAM chip.
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The first microprocessor.
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Nicknamed the "Floppy" for its flexibility.
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network
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The first consumer computers.
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More first consumer computers.
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Any product that pays for itself in two weeks is a surefire winner.
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Word Processors.
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From an "Acorn" grows a personal computer revolution
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From "Quick And Dirty" comes the operating system of the century.
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The first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface.
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The more affordable home computer with a GUI.
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Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple.
