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First computer concept, called the Difference Engine, was conceived on paper by Johann Helfrich von Müller.http://www.ait-pro.com/aitpro-blog/437/misc-projects/history-and-facts-project/computer-history-and-facts/
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Two University of Pennsylvania professors, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, build the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC). Considered the grandfather of digital computers, it fills a 20-foot by 40-foot room and has 18,000 vacuum tubes.
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Mauchly and Presper leave the University of Pennsylvania and receive funding from the Census Bureau to build the UNIVAC, the first commercial computer for business and government applications.
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First computing device. Charles Babbage, an English mechanical engineer and polymath, originated the concept of a programmable computer. Considered the "father of the computer", he conceptualized and invented the first mechanical computer in the early 19th century.www.google.com
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The IBM 5100 is the first portable computer, which was released on September 1975. The computer weighed 55 pounds and had a five inch CRT display, tape drive, 1.9MHz PALM processor, and 64KB of RAM. In the picture is an ad of the IBM 5100 taken from a November 1975 issue of Scientific America.
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Apple introduces the MacBook Pro, its first Intel-based, dual-core mobile computer, as well as an Intel-based iMac. Nintendo’s Wii game console hits the market.
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Touch screen technology and applications are common terms in the current market. Here we hope to show the growth in this technology and its future. In recent years there has been an influx in the availability of products incorporating touch screens and this is in part why we are looking at it. https://jotobin.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/group-essay-touch-screen-technology/
