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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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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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Magnetic tape allowed for inexpensive mass storage of information and is a key part of the computer revolution. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1952/
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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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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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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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This new supercomputer performed up to 3 million instructions pre second, outweighing its competitor, the IBM 7030 supercomputer.
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The HP 2116A is HP's first computer, and it was developed as a versatile instrument controller.
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An IBM transaction processing system that allowed for online transaction processing.
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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/
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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/
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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 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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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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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/