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Charles Babbage
Designer of the first auto calculator
Considered a "father of computer" -
Herman Hollerith
made the 1st punch card machine
made census take 1/8 of the time it took in 1880 for 1890 -
Z1 computer
Was amechanical calculator
Was completely demolished in ww2 -
Eniac
1st highspeed digital computer
Was initially designed for the US army to calculate artillary -
Univac
1st Commercially sucessful electronic digital computer
Predicted the Eisenhower election with odds in his favor of 100-1 -
1st gen computer
UNIVAC
Generated a lot of heat making for frequent malfunctions -
2nd gen computers
were limited to size due to the transistorsor
used assembly languages which allowed programmers to specify instructions in words -
Jack Kilby
Invented the 1st integrated circuit
US President Bill Clinton wrote, "You can take pride in the knowledge that your work will help to improve lives for generations to come." in congradulations for the 2000 nobel prize in physics -
3rd gen computer
made possible by the integrated curcuit
interacted through keyboards and monitors and interfaced with an operating system -
BASIC
An easily learned progamming tool
Was usually shipped with a new computer in the firmware -
Bill Gates
Founder of Microsoft
Has a net worth of $80.9 BILLION -
4th gen computers
used microprocessors
led to the invention of the internet -
Intro to the GUI
Allowed for simple computer interaction
Was sometimes pronounced "gooey" -
ALTAIR computer
First personal computer
Was first published in Popular Electronics magazine -
Steve Jobs
formed the apple I
Was known for wearing a turtle neck shirts -
Apple II
First computer to have a color monitor.
Contained the same processor and ran the samespeed as the Apple I -
Wordstar
was the first word processing app
was top in the market in to the 80s till 1985 -
Visicalc
1st electronic spreadsheet app
Often considered the application that turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a serious business tool -
Osborne Computer
Was the first "portable" computer.
The 5" screen could only display 52 characters per line of text -
Pagemaker
1st desktop publishing software
was top of the professional market up to 1998 -
Excel
one of the 1st spreadsheet apps to use GUI
to current date excel is still able to use xlm macro -
Mosaic
the first browser to diplay graphic and text
Can still be downloaded from NCSA -
Netscape
predominant in browser software at the time
discontinued in march of 2008