computers though time

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  • first calculator

    first calculator

    the first modern computer was made in 1882 by Charles Babbage. It failed.
    https://theconversation.com.
  • Punch Card System

    Punch Card System

    Herman Hollerith makes a punch system to calculate the numbers from the 1880 census- accomplished in three years.
  • Turing Machine

    Turing Machine

    Alan Turing present a universal machine, called the Turing Machine. It was able to compute anything computable.
  • First Computer Without Gears

    First Computer Without Gears

    J.V. Atanasoff, a professor for mathematics at ISU, attempts to build the first computer without gears, cams, belts or shafts.- He fails
  • First Computer to Store Memory on Its Own

    First Computer to Store Memory on Its Own

    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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    First Calculator

    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.
  • Computer Chip

    Computer Chip

    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
  • First Computer and Mouse

    First Computer and Mouse

    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.
  • First Memory Chip

    First Memory Chip

    Alan Shugart leads a team of engineers who invent the floppy disk, allowing data to be shared among computers.
  • Apple I

    Apple I

    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.
  • Apple II

    Apple II

    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.
  • Windows

    Windows

    Microsoft announces that Windows was Microsoft's first true attempt at a graphical user interface.
  • Beating Heart

    Beating Heart

    The beating heart computer is projected to be finished in 2032
  • Neuromorphic technology

    Neuromorphic technology

    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.
  • DNA Data Storage

    DNA Data Storage

    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