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Friends David Packard and Bill Hewlett founded Hewlett-Packard in their Palo Alto, California garage in 1939. HP 200A Audio Oscillator is the object of their creation, and many engineers order them, which makes these two men very successful.
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This professor at Harvard University invented the computer and the computer is built by IBM. First used for mathematical tables, but was soon surpassed by other technologies.
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This computer was one of the first commercially created computers. The US Navy was the first to buy this magnetic drum that stored 1,000,000 bits - one of the earliest computer storage devices.
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Professors at MIT start working on direct input keyboards.
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First widely accepted transistor and used for logic operations.
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The Apollo guidance computer helped the Apollo 11 moon landing happen succussfully.
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The Apple II was a big hit a came with keyboard, game paddle, and video game - when hooked to a TV, the graphics were amazing.
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Fisrt hard drive for microcomputers and held 5 megabytes of storage and fit into the same space as a floppy disc drive.
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At first was a special effects group for lucasarts, but was eventually bought by Steve Jobs for 10 million dollars and then renamed it Pixar, which was eventually bought by disney in 2006.
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Each chip contained over 1 million transistors and 32-bit logic unit.
