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LinkThe Z1 was designed as a mechanical calculator driven by binary. It had limited programmibility, reading instructions from punched tape.
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LinkThe Cathode ray tube amusement device is recognized as the first video game. It used a cathode ray tube to aim at a plane in time by turning knobs.
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LinkElectronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, developed by University of Pennsylvania. It was a big as a room and cost $500,000.
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LinkThe IBM 701 was IBM's first comercial scientific computer. It used electrostatic storage, and used punchcards for input and output.
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LinkARPANET was the world's first operational packet switching network. It was the precursor to today's internet. It was funded by the Department of Defense.
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LinkTymnet was an international network used to connect computers all over the world. It hosetd computers for thousands of large companies, educational institutions, and government agencies.
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LinkThe Apple I was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. The introductory price was $666.66 because Steve liked repeating numbers.
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LinkMS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based computers. It was the most commonly used of the DOS operating systems.
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LinkTha Macintosh 128K, released as the "Apple Macintosh", is the original Apple Personal Computer. It was released with a 9 inch monitor, keyboard, and mouse. It had a starting price of $2,495, which was cheap, considering the same machine would have cost $10,000 a decade before.
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LinkWindows 3.0, a graphical enviornment, was the third major release from Mircosoft. It was the first widley successful version of Mircosoft and was a rival to the Apple Macintosh.
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LinkWindows 95 was the 4th major OS release from Microsoft. It was a consumer-oriented GUI-based OS. It integrated MS-DOS and other seperate Microsoft programs.
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LinkWindows XP is a OS created by Microsoft for use on personal computers. It is the 2nd most popular version of Windows, based on installed user base.
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LinkWIndows Vista is the 6th Major OS realease from Microsoft, which was considered to be a flop. It had many security issues and was criticized for having high requirements.
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LinkWindows 7 is the current release of Windows, which is the 7th major OS release from Microsoft. It is much more focused than Windows Vista, which is often criticized for security reasons.
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LinkIPv6 is the latest version of the IP adress, solving the problem proposed by IPv4. IPv4 could only have 4,294,967,296 unique addresses worldwide, while IPv6 allows for around 4.8×1028 addresses per person, a number unlikely to ever run out.
