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The Antikythera Device, a bronze mechanical lunar month calculator, is constructed in Greece
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Wilhelm Schickard designs the first known mechanical calculator, the "Calculating Clock" to multiply large numbers.
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The first typewriter is patented by William Austin Burt. It's slow and clumsy, but it's the first writing machine.
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Burroughs produces the first adding machine with a printer
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Jay Forester develops magnetic memory at M.I.T.
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Commercial transistor computers make their first appearance
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Douglas Engelbart receives a patent on the mouse pointing device for computers
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Compaq introduces the DeskPro 386, the first computer to use the 80386 chip
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Microsoft introduces its lame version of a browser, Internet Explorer 3.0
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Apple releases the iMac
