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English mathmetician Charles Babbage concieves of a steamdriven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers. The project, funded by the English goverment is a failure. More than a century later, however, the worlds first computer was actually built.
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Designed a puch card to calculate the 1880 cencus, acomplishing the task in just three years and saving the goverment $5 million. He establishes a company that would ultimately become IBM. ( IBM was founded in 1911 )
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A proffeser of physics and mathmatics at lowa State University, attempts to build the first computer with gears, cams, belts or shafts.
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Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, design a computer that can solve 29 equations simultaneously. This marks the first time a computer is able to store information on its main memory.
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Two University of Pennysvalia proffesers - John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert - build the Electronic Numrical Integrator and Calculator ( ENIAC ). Considered the grandfather to digital computers, it fills a 20 foot by 40 foot room and has 18,000 vacuum tubes.
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Mauchuly and Presper Leave the University of Pennsyvaina and recieve funding from the cencus burea to build the UNIVAC, the first commercial computer for business and government aplications.
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Grace hopper develops the first computer launguage, which eventually becomes known as COBOL. Inventor Thomas Johnson Watson, Jr., Son of IBM CEO, Thomas Johnson Watson, Sr., concievs the IBM 701 EDPM to the united states keep tabs on Korea during the war
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The Fortran programing language is born.
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Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unviel the Intergrated Circut, known as the computer chip.
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Douglas Englbert shows a modern computer, with a mouse and a graphical user interface.
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The newly formed intel unviels the intel 1103, the first access memory chip.
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Alan Shugart leads a team of IMB Who actually invent the floppy disk allowing to share data among computers.
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Robert Macalfe invents the Ethernet for connecting multiple computers and hardware.
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A number of personal computers hit the market.
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The IBM 5100 becomes the first commercialy aviable portable computer.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start apple computers on April fool's day and rolled out the Apple 1, the first computer with a single-circut board.
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Radio shacks intintial production ran of the TRS-80 was just 3,000.
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Accountants rejoce at the introduction of Visicalc.
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Word proccesing becomes a reality.
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PC's become gaming machines.
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Apple release the ipad, changing the way consumers view media and jumpstarting the dormant tablet computer segmant
