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Joeseph-Marie Jacuard invents an automatic loom controlled by punch cards
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The Arithmometer was the first mass-produced calculator invented by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar
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Per Georg and his son Edvard invented the Tabulating Machine
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Konrad Zuse made the first freely programable computer.
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The IBM 650 magnetic drum calculator established itslelf as the first mas-produced computer, with the company selling 450 in one year.
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Hewlett Packard introuduces its HP-85. A microcomputer with 16kb of RAM and a 5-inch CRT display.
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IBM joins the computer race by introducing IBM 5150 PC that used 4.77-MHz intel 8088 processer, 16kB base memory and PC-DOS (MS-DOS) for the OS.
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The Apple Lisa was the first successful computer with a graphical user interface and a mouse. The cost was $10,000
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The Commodore 64 retains the record as the most sucessful single computer model ever, selling over 10 million units. They also made a portable Commodore 64 and it is called the SX-64, It weighs 23 pounds, and has a built in 5-inch color CRT screen.
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Wacom is one of the largest and well known manufacturers of computer graphic tablets.
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PNY Technologies company is founded
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Dell releases its first computer, the "Turbo PC".
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Compaq computers pucheses digital equpment corporation for $9.6 billion
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the iphone 5c is going to be on shelves on September 20th. the iphone 5c is plastice andnot metal or glass. the iphone 5c for a 16gb costs $199, for the 32gb is $299, for the 64gb is $399.
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in the future police departments will beaable to use this when they look at mug shots of criminals and match there face to identifiy them.
