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Hewlett-Packard is founded. David Packard and Bill Hewlett founded HP in a garage in Palo Alto, California.
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Eckert-Mauchly computer corp. is founded and constructs machines based on their experience with ENIAC and EDVAC.
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Heinz Nixdorf founded the Nixdorf Computer Corp. It remains an independent company in Germany until the company joined Siemens in 1990.
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The calculator company Burroughs buys Electrodata. Combined, it creates a giant calculating firm.
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Xerox opens Palo Alto Research Centre. This research centre attracted many of the US’s top computer Scientists-This lead to some ground-breaking inventions that changed the computer world.
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Xerox closes its computer division. Most of it is sold to Honeywell.
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Broderbund is founded by brothers Doug and Gary Carlston. Doug created games for the company. One of their first games was Galactic Revolution.
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Thinking Machines is founded. The founder Danny Hills and his friends wanted a super computer.
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Netscape Communications is founded. The company delivered its first browser in October of 1994.
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Yahoo! Is founded by Stanford graduates Jerry Yang and David Filo. Little did they know that their website would become one of the most popular search engines in history.