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the first modern computer was made in 1882 by Charles Babbage. It failed.
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Herman Hollerith makes a punch system to calculate the numbers from the 1880 census- accomplished in three years.
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Alan Turing present a universal machine, called the Turing Machine. It was able to compute anything computable. -
J.V. Atanasoff, a professor for mathematics at ISU, attempts to build the first computer without gears, cams, belts or shafts.- He fails -
J.V and a graduate student, Clifford Berry, design a computer that can solve 29 equations quickly. This marks the first time a computer is able to store information on its own.
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Two University of Pennsylvania professors, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, built the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator. 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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Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce release the integrated circuit, known as the computer chip. Kilby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for his work
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Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern computer, with a mouse and a GUI, This marks the evolution of the computer from where only scientists would use them, to where they are available more to the public.
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Alan Shugart leads a team of engineers who invent the floppy disk, allowing data to be shared among computers.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers on April 1st and roll out the Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board.
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Steve Jobs and Wozniak incorporate Apple and show Apple II at the first West Coast Computer Faire. It had color graphics and incorporated an audio cassette drive for storage.
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Microsoft announces that Windows was Microsoft's first true attempt at a graphical user interface.
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The beating heart computer is projected to be finished in 2032
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The point of this technology is to create a computer that copy's the architecture of a human brain in order to achieve human levels of problem solving, and maybe even cognition at some point.
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Convert data to base 4 and you can encode it on synthetic DNA. Which basically means brining extinct or deceased things back to life with DNA.
https://www.futureforall.org/computers/computers.htm