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In 1822, Charles Babbage purposed and began developing the Difference Engine, considered to be the first automatic computing engine that was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making a hard copies of the results. Unfortunately, because of funding he was never able to complete a full-scale functional version of this machine. In June of 1991, the London Science Museum completed the Difference Engine No 2 for the bicentennial year of Babbage's birth and later completed the printing me
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Wilhelm Schickard of Wurttemberg (Germany) builds the first discrete automatic calculator, essentially starting the computer era
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1947 - The year the first game is designed for play on a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT)
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1948 - SSEM, Small-Scale Experimental Machine (code name "Baby") is built at the University of Manchester, it is the first computer to store both its programs and data in RAM
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NASA becomes operational and the first integrated circuit is produced
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1961 - A group of students at MIT (including Steve Russell) programs a game called "Spacewar"
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1962 - NASA launches Mariner 1 (it subsequently goes off course during launch due to a missing "bar" in its FORTRAN software
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IBM introduces the first drive using a wound-coil ferrite recording head.
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1971 - Intel releases the 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor
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- Don Daglow, a student at Claremont Graduate University, writes the first computer role-playing game for PDP-10
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- The Commodore 64 is released and becomes the best-selling PC of all time
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The home computer Enterprise 128 is announced
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they use it to talk with people and do business work and ho
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- Apple computer launches Macintosh, announced by a single commercial broadcast during Super Bowl XVIII
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1977 - The Apple II personal computer is launched