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designed the first automatic calculator, called the analytical engine. only part of the peice was finished when he passed away
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was the first to take Jacquard's punch-card concept and apply it to computing with his Hollerith Tabulating Machine.
the machine he built was only capable of counting -
A mechanical calculator thought to be the first to include certain features integral to todays systems, such as a control unit and seperate memory functions.
This computer was destroyed in the bombardment of Berlin in December 1943, during World War II, together with all construction plans -
Electronic Numerical Integrator and computer (ENIAC). first successful high-speed electronic digital computer. 18,000 vacuum tubes and took up nearly 1,800 square feet of floor space. took several people to operate it.
took 18 months and 500,000 tax dollars to build the computer. -
The univac and computers like that were considered 1st generation computers.
could only solve one problem at a time. -
Universal Automatic Computer. Operated on a magnetic tape. United States Census Bureau payed the cost $400,000 to build the computer to help keep up with the growing population.
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computers used transisters instead of vacuum tubes.
The first computers of this generation were developed for the atomic energy industry. -
INvented the worlds first Integrated circuit, a small chip capable of containing thousands of transisters.
TI shut down for mass company vacation but jack being new employee could not take vacation so he spent thwe summer working to find miniaturization method for circuits -
Allowed users to view multimedia on the web, causing internet traffic to increase by nearly 350%.
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Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Language that beginning programming students could easily learn
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generation with integrated circuits. Computers for the first time became accessible to a mass audience because they were smaller and cheaper than their predecessors.
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computers that used a microprocessor chip. What in the first generation filled an entire room could now fit in the palm of the hand.
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Graphical User Interface. Allowed users to interact easily with the computer. Apple was the first company to use the GUI.
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Founder of Microsoft
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The first personal computer. No computer or monitor. 256 bytes of memory.
Named after a star, "Altair" which is the 11th brightest star in the sky. -
built a personal computer named Apple I with Steve Wozniac in his garage, they later formed the Apple Computer Company in 1976.
The first 50 units were built in Steve Jobs' bedroom at his parents' house. -
Featured color monitor, sound, and game paddles. 4KB of RAM. Optional floppy disk to load programs.
Offered a spreadsheet program called VisiCalc. -
first electronic spreadsheet application.
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first word processing application.
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First "portable" computer. Weighed 24.5 pounds. 5-inch screen. 64 kilobytes of RAM. Two floppy disk drives. Preinstalled with spreadsheet and word processing software.
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One of the first spreadsheets to use a graphical user interface.
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The first desktop publishing software. initially released for the apple macintosh.
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web browser that became a predominant player in browser software.
