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Abacus and its HistoryUsed to perform arithmetic calculations and is often referrefd to as the first computer.
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Analytocal EngineAnalytical Engine, generally considered the first computer, designed and partly built by the English inventor Charles Babbage in 1837.
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Hole Punched CardUsed for vital statistics tabulation by the New York City Board of Health and several states.
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Von Neumann ArchitectureIt is a computer architecture based on that by the mathmetician and physicist Jon Von Neumann and others.
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ENIACENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.
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UNIVACThe world's first commercially produced electronic digital computer.
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High Level Programming Language A high level programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer in the 1960s.
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UNIX the UNIX operating system was created and is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T UNIX.
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Altaire December 19, 1974, the Altair was invented is a microcomputer.
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Cray-1The first Cray-1 system was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976 and it went on to become one of the best known and most successful supercomputers in history.
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Personal ComputerThe first successfully mass marketed personal computer was the Commodore PET introduced in January 1977, but back-ordered and not available until later in the year.
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Spreadsheet The first electronic spreadsheet invented was in 1978 is the First Killer App of the Computer Era.
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MacintoshThe first mass market personal computer featuring an integral graphical user interface and mouse.
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Microsoft WindowsMicrosoft introduced an operating environment named windows on November 20, 1985 and is used as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces.
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History of Apple Inc.An American multinational technology company that develops and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.
