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A German Engineer, Konrad Zuse made a computer that used 2,900 relays, had a floating point binary arithmic, and had a 22-bit word length. The origional Z3 was destroyed in a bombing in Berlin, he later made a second one, which is now on display Deutsches Museum in Munich.
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IBM´s Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator computed scientific data in public display near the company´s Manhattan headquarters. Before it got commisioned in 1952, it made the moon-positioning tables.
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This computer solved clerical problems (typing, filing, etc.). It was modeled after the EDSAC, built to solve scheduling production and delivery cakes for the Lyons Tea shop.
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IMB ships their first electronic computer, the 701. During the three years of production, IBM sold 19 machines to research labratories, aircraft companies, and federal government.
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The LINC computer was created for the purpose of processing lab data.
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This computer orbited the earth on Apollo 7. A year later, it steered Apollo 11 to the lunar surface. Astronauts commumunicated to the computer by punching in two-diget codes and the appropriate synatic cadegory into the display and keyboard unit.
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The TV Typewriter, designed by Don Lancaster, provided the first display of alphanumeric information on an ordinary television set.
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Steve Wozinack, a young american, made the Apple-1, a single-board for hobbyists.
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Apple computers launched Macintosh: The first successful mouse-driven computer with a grafic user interface. Apple produced a 1.5 million commercial during the super bowl for Macintosh.
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IBM introduced its PS/2 machines, which made the 3 1/2-inch floppy disk drive and video graphics array standard for IBM computers.
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"Computer History Museum - Timeline of Computer History." Computer History Museum - Timeline of Computer History. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2013.
