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J.V Atanasoff a professer of phyisics and mathematic at Lowa state university, attempts to build the first computer without gears, cams, belt or shafts.
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Atansoff and his graduate student, Cifford Berry, design a computer that solve, 29 equation simultaneously.
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Two university to pennsylvania professer- John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert- build the Eletronic Numerical Interagator and Calculater (ENIC).
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Mauchly and Persper leave the unerversity of Pennsylvania and recive funding from the Census Bureau to build the UIVAC, the first commerial computer for business and goverment applications.
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Grace Happer devolep the first computer language, which eventaully becomes known as COLBOL.
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the FORTRAN programing language is bron.
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Jack Kilby and Rubert Noyce unveil the intergrated circuit, known as the computer chip.
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Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern computer, with a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI). This marks the evolution of the computer from a specialized machine for scientists and mathemaicians to techonology that is more accessible to the general public.
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The newly formed Intel unveils the Intel 1103, the first Dynamic Access Mermory (DRAM) chip.
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Alan Shugart leads a team of IBM engineers who invent the "floppy disk" allowing data to be shared among computers.
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Robert Metcalfe, a member of the reasearch staff for Xerox, develops Ethernet for multipule computers and other hardware
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A number of personal computers hit the markets, including Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair, IBM5100, RadioShack's TRS-80 affectionately known as the "Trash 80" and the Commodore PET.
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The IBM 1500 becomes the first commercially available portable computer.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers an Apirl Fool's Day and roll out Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board.
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Jobs and Wozniak incorporate Apple and show the Apple II at the first West Coast Computer Faire. It offers color graphics and incorporate an audio cassette drive for storage.
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