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Napier's rods
Scothish inventor of logarithms, John Rapier, invented Rapier's rod to simplify the task of multiplication. https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Courses/134/history.html -
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Programming History Timeline
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The Pascaline
French scientist Blaise Pascal invents the first pratical mechnical calculator that had a series of interlocking cogs that could add and subtract decimal numbers.
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IBM 726 Magnetic Tape
Magnetic tape allowed for inexpensive mass storage of information and is a key part of the computer revolution. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1952/ -
Grace Hopper completes A-0
Mathematician grace Hopper completes A-0, which is a program that substitutes numbers with English-like words to give computers instructions.
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OXO for EDSAC
Alexander Douglas designed one of the earliest computer games, OXO. it was palyed on the EDSAC computer at Cambridge, and it allowed players to choose to start or allow the machine to make the first move.
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Quicksort Algorithm
C.A.R. Hoare develops Quicksort, which is an algorithm that uses pivots, series of elements, that allowed for fast sorting.
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CDC 6600 Supercomputer Introduced
This new supercomputer performed up to 3 million instructions pre second, outweighing its competitor, the IBM 7030 supercomputer.
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HP 2116A
The HP 2116A is HP's first computer, and it was developed as a versatile instrument controller.
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CICS is released
An IBM transaction processing system that allowed for online transaction processing.
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IBM 3340 Data Module
Based on the Winchester technology that put the read/write heads, platters and access mechanism in a sealed removable unit. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1973/ -
Macintosh
The Macintosh was the first successful mouse-driven computer with a graphical user interface and was based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1984/ -
Deskpro 386 System
First computer on the market to use Intel's new 80386 chip, a 32-bit microprocessor with 275,000 transistors on each chip.
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DOOM
DOOM became very popular very quickly and DOOM palyers were among the first to customize the game's levels and appearance through modding.
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BeBox
It used dual PowerPC 603 CPUs, and featuring a large variety of perphireal ports, the first devices were used for software development.
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Visual Studio
Microsoft introduces Visual Studio, and bundeled within Visual Studio were a number of programming tools/ Microsoft intended to create a single environment where developers could use different programming languages.
http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1997/