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Pascal
A calculation device that could calculate up to 8 figures -
French Weaver
Joseph Jacquard found he could store his weaving patterns on cards with holes. -
Charles Babbage
Designed two devices that could do complicated things. He is considered the first computer programmer. -
Electrical "Computer"
Used punch cards to keep census data. -
Mark I
The first computer like machine. Built by IBM and Harvard, it was 52 feet long, weighed 50 tons, and had 750,000 parts. This also used punch cards for data. -
John Neumann
Designed rules for the computers we know today. He included an arthemetic unit. This made it possible to store programming instructions. -
UNIVAC
UNIVAC was built and sold to the US Census, (Universal Automatic Computer) -
Transistors
This resulted in smaller, faster, and more reliable computers. -
Early programming languages
FORTRAN and COBOL were the twoearly programming languages used for the more advanced computers at that time. -
Compact CPU
Apple had created the first computer and soon after that many other companies did the same. -
Apple Computer
Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs built the first Apple computer in thier garage. -
Affordable computers
Now that computers are being produced people are now able to buy them for an inexpensive price.
